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Sex Distribution

"Sex Distribution" 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.

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The number of males and females in a given population. The distribution may refer to how many men or women or what proportion of either in the group. The population is usually patients with a specific disease but the concept is not restricted to humans and is not restricted to medicine.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sex Distribution" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sex Distribution" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 145 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 16 publications in 2016
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