"Duodenum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The shortest and widest portion of the SMALL INTESTINE adjacent to the PYLORUS of the STOMACH. It is named for having the length equal to about the width of 12 fingers.
| Descriptor ID |
D004386
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A03.556.124.684.124 A03.556.875.249
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1997 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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