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Descriptor English: Mothers
Descriptor Spanish: Madres
Descriptor madre
Scope note: Progenitoras hembras, humanas o animales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Mães
Descriptor French: Mères
Entry term(s): Mother
Tree number(s): F01.829.263.875.200
I01.880.853.150.688.270
M01.620.630
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009035
Scope note: Female and female-identifying parents, human or animal.
Annotation: human & animal; /psychol: consider also MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; permitted for legal aspects of establishing maternity (as counterpart of PATERNITY); note category: do not confuse with PREGNANCY, a physiol state
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
ED education
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
Previous Indexing: Female (1966-1977)
Maternal Behavior (1968-1977)
Mother-Child Relations (1968-1977)
Public MeSH Note: 78
History Note: 78
Related: Maternal Behavior MeSH
DeCS ID: 9227
Unique ID: D009035
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1978/01/01
Date of Entry: 1977/04/22
Revision Date: 2004/07/13
Mothers - Preferred
Concept UI M0014092
Scope note Female and female-identifying parents, human or animal.
Preferred term Mothers
Entry term(s) Mother



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