Disciplines and Occupations

Andrology

A scientific or medical discipline concerning the study of male reproductive biology, diseases of the male genital organs, and male infertility. Major areas of interest include ENDOCRINOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; FERTILIZATION; CONTRACEPTION; and CRYOPRESERVATION.

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Abstract

A scientific or medical discipline concerning the study of male reproductive biology, diseases of the male genital organs, and male infertility. Major areas of interest include ENDOCRINOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; FERTILIZATION; CONTRACEPTION; and CRYOPRESERVATION.

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

use for the specialty only

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History Note

2003; use UROLOGY 1992-2002

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Previous Indexing

  • Infertility, Male (1965-2002)

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  1. H02w.403w.763w.500w

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WP 21.5

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Andrology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D033441. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D033441
  2. Andrology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrology
  3. Andrology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335057