"Sex Characteristics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Those characteristics that distinguish one SEX from the other. The primary sex characteristics are the OVARIES and TESTES and their related hormones. Secondary sex characteristics are those which are masculine or feminine but not directly related to reproduction.
| Descriptor ID |
D012727
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G08.686.815
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| Concept/Terms |
Sex Characteristics- Sex Characteristics
- Characteristic, Sex
- Characteristics, Sex
- Sex Characteristic
- Sex Dimorphism
- Dimorphism, Sex
- Dimorphisms, Sex
- Sex Dimorphisms
- Sex Differences
- Difference, Sex
- Differences, Sex
- Sex Difference
- Sexual Dimorphism
- Dimorphism, Sexual
- Dimorphisms, Sexual
- Sexual Dimorphisms
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sex Characteristics" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sex Characteristics" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1995 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1999 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sex Characteristics" by people in Profiles.
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Age- and sex- divergent translatomic responses of the mouse retinal pigmented epithelium. Neurobiol Aging. 2024 Aug; 140:41-59.
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Sex differences in patients with and without high-risk factors associated with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2024 Mar 08; 166(1):125.
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Sex-Based Differences in Opioid Administration: A Puzzle Yet to Be Solved. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2024 May; 38(5):1275-1276.
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Sex Differences in the Skeletal Muscle Response to a High Fat, High Sucrose Diet in Rats. Nutrients. 2023 Oct 19; 15(20).
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Microglial senescence contributes to female-biased neuroinflammation in the aging mouse hippocampus: implications for Alzheimer's disease. J Neuroinflammation. 2023 Aug 16; 20(1):188.
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Differential Regulation of Mouse Hippocampal Gene Expression Sex Differences by Chromosomal Content and Gonadal Sex. Mol Neurobiol. 2022 Aug; 59(8):4669-4702.
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Sex Differences between Medical Students in the Assessment of the Fear of COVID-19. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 03 13; 19(6).
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Negative body size-dependent resource allocation underlies conspicuous sexual ornaments in a territorial damselfly. J Evol Biol. 2022 02; 35(2):288-298.
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Machine Learning Evidence for Sex Differences Consistently Influences Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Fluctuations Across Multiple Independently Acquired Data Sets. Brain Connect. 2022 05; 12(4):348-361.
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Infant sex differences in human milk intake and composition from 1- to 3-month post-delivery in a healthy United States cohort. Ann Hum Biol. 2021 Sep; 48(6):455-465.