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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Behavior > Sucking Behavior

Preferred term

Sucking Behavior  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • human & animal

Scope note

  • Any suction exerted by the mouth; response of the mammalian infant to draw milk from the breast. Includes sucking on inanimate objects. Not to be used for thumb sucking, which is indexed under fingersucking.

History note

  • 68(65)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013391

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