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Physiological Phenomena > Growth and Development > Sexual Development > Sex Differentiation
Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena > Reproductive Physiological Phenomena > Sexual Development > Sex Differentiation
... > Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena > Reproductive Physiological Phenomena > Reproduction > Embryonic and Fetal Development > Organogenesis > Sex Differentiation
... > Physiological Phenomena > Growth and Development > Morphogenesis > Embryonic and Fetal Development > Organogenesis > Sex Differentiation

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Sex Differentiation  

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Entry terms

  • Differentiation, Sex
  • Differentiation, Sexual
  • Sexual Differentiation

Note

  • note SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; and SEX FACTORS are also available

Scope note

  • The process in developing sex- or gender-specific tissue, organ, or function after SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES have set the sex of the GONADS. Major areas of sex differentiation occur in the reproductive tract (GENITALIA) and the brain.

History note

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012733

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