"Sexual Abstinence" 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.
Refraining from SEXUAL INTERCOURSE.
| Descriptor ID |
D012746
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.802.900
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Sexual Abstinence".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sexual Abstinence" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sexual Abstinence" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sexual Abstinence" by people in Profiles.
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The Problem of Female Genital Cutting: Bridging Secular and Islamic Bioethical Perspectives. Perspect Biol Med. 2019; 62(2):273-300.
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Patient-centered Contraceptive Counseling and Prescribing. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 2018 03; 61(1):27-39.
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Obstetrician-gynecologists' beliefs about safe-sex and abstinence counseling. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2011 Sep; 114(3):281-5.
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Pediatricians are more supportive of the human papillomavirus vaccine than the general public. South Med J. 2008 Dec; 101(12):1216-21.
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What schools teach our patients about sex: content, quality, and influences on sex education. Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Feb; 111(2 Pt 1):256-66.
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Should doctors reconstruct the vaginal introitus of adolescent girls to mimic the virginal state? Surgery is not what it seems. BMJ. 1998 Feb 07; 316(7129):462.
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Pressor effect of endothelium-derived relaxing factor inhibition in conscious virgin and gravid rats. Am J Physiol. 1990 Aug; 259(2 Pt 2):F293-6.