"Sucking Behavior" 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.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D013391
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.916
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| Concept/Terms |
Sucking Behavior- Sucking Behavior
- Behavior, Sucking
- Behaviors, Sucking
- Sucking Behaviors
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sucking Behavior" by people in Profiles.
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High-performance suction feeding in an early elasmobranch. Sci Adv. 2019 09; 5(9):eaax2742.
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Motor patterns of herbivorous feeding: electromyographic analysis of biting in the parrotfishes Cetoscarus bicolor and Scarus iseri. Brain Behav Evol. 1999 Oct; 54(4):205-22.
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Maternal cradling and infant nipple preferences in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Dev Psychobiol. 1998 May; 32(4):305-12.
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Ontogeny of feeding motor patterns in infant rats: an electromyographic analysis of suckling and chewing. Behav Neurosci. 1992 Jun; 106(3):539-54.
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Fetal sucking of the umbilical cord. J Ultrasound Med. 1991 Jun; 10(6):300.