Planarians

Announcement

You can now add alternative names! Click here to add other names that you've published under.

"Planarians" 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.

MeSH information

Definition | Details | More General Concepts | Related Concepts | More Specific Concepts

Nonparasitic free-living flatworms of the class Turbellaria. The most common genera are Dugesia, formerly Planaria, which lives in water, and Bipalium, which lives on land. Geoplana occurs in South America and California.

Descriptor ID	D010932
MeSH Number(s)	B01.050.500.500.736.847.610
Concept/Terms	Planarians Planarians Planarian Dugesia Dugesia Dugesias

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Planarians".

Organisms [B]
Eukaryota [B01]
Animals [B01.050]
Invertebrates [B01.050.500]
Helminths [B01.050.500.500]
Platyhelminths [B01.050.500.500.736]
Turbellaria [B01.050.500.500.736.847]
Planarians [B01.050.500.500.736.847.610]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Planarians".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Planarians".

publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Planarians" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Planarians" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.