Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena > Reproductive Physiological Phenomena > Estrous Cycle > Anestrus

Preferred term

Anestrus  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • non-primate mammals only

Scope note

  • A state of sexual inactivity in female animals exhibiting no ESTROUS CYCLE. Causes of anestrus include pregnancy, presence of offspring, season, stress, and pathology.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under ESTRUS 1975-90

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000780

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 11/11/74, last modified 7/8/08