"Extremities" 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.
The farthest or outermost projections of the body, such as the HAND and FOOT.
| Descriptor ID |
D005121
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.378
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Extremities".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Extremities" by people in this website by year, and whether "Extremities" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1997 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2005 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2006 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2022 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Extremities" by people in Profiles.
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Direct development of stem tetrapods across the fin-to-limb transition. Science. 2026 Jun 18; 392(6804):1292-1296.
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A mosaic of whole-body representations on the human precentral gyrus. Nature. 2026 Aug; 656(8128):680-687.
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Multiple Longitudinal Tracts in the Cephalopod Arm Sensorimotor System. J Comp Neurol. 2026 May; 534(5):e70165.
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Co-option of an ancestral cloacal regulatory landscape during digit evolution. Nature. 2025 12; 648(8092):109-116.
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Neural responses to light stimulation in the octopus arm. J Exp Biol. 2025 04 01; 228(7).
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Octopus as a comparative model for understanding the neural control of limb movement and limb-based behaviors. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2025 Apr; 91:102982.
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Neuronal segmentation in cephalopod arms. Nat Commun. 2025 Jan 15; 16(1):443.
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Ancient developmental genes underlie evolutionary novelties in walking fish. Curr Biol. 2024 Oct 07; 34(19):4339-4348.e6.
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Effects of life history strategies and habitats on limb regeneration in plethodontid salamanders. Dev Dyn. 2025 05; 254(5):396-419.
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Sall4 regulates downstream patterning genes during limb regeneration. Dev Biol. 2024 11; 515:151-159.