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Food and Beverages > Food > Eggs
Physiological Phenomena > Diet, Food, and Nutrition > Food > Eggs

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Eggs  

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Note

  • differentiate from OVUM; eggs as food (chicken, duck, quail, etc. eggs); fish roe & reptile eggs as food go here but if physiol or anat, use OVUM; /adv eff consider also EGG HYPERSENSITIVITY

Scope note

  • Animal reproductive bodies, or the contents thereof, used as food. The concept is differentiated from OVUM, the anatomic or physiologic entity.

In other languages

  • munat

    Finnish

  • kananmuna
  • kananmunat
  • muna
  • Ägg

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004531

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