Mouth

"Mouth" 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 oval-shaped oral cavity located at the apex of the digestive tract and consisting of two parts: the vestibule and the oral cavity proper.

Descriptor ID	D009055
MeSH Number(s)	A01.456.505.631 A03.556.500 A14.549
Concept/Terms	Mouth Mouth Oral Cavity Cavity, Oral Cavitas Oris Vestibule of the Mouth Vestibule of the Mouth Vestibule Oris Oral Cavity Proper Oral Cavity Proper Mouth Cavity Proper Cavitas oris propria

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

Anatomy [A]
Body Regions [A01]
Head [A01.456]
Face [A01.456.505]
Mouth [A01.456.505.631]
Digestive System [A03]
Gastrointestinal Tract [A03.556]
Mouth [A03.556.500]
Stomatognathic System [A14]
Mouth [A14.549]

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

Mouth
Lip

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

Bar chart showing 33 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2019

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	0	1	1
2003	0	1	1
2004	2	0	2
2005	3	0	3
2006	2	0	2
2007	0	1	1
2010	0	1	1
2011	1	0	1
2014	2	0	2
2015	0	1	1
2016	2	0	2
2017	2	1	3
2018	0	1	1
2019	3	1	4
2020	1	0	1
2021	2	0	2
2023	0	2	2
2024	0	2	2
2025	0	1	1

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Furstenau TN, Whealy R, Timm S, Roberts A, Maltinsky S, Wells SJ, Drake K, Ross A, Bolduc C, Pearson T, Fofanov VY. High-throughput targeted amplicon screening tool for characterizing intrahost diversity in Staphylococcus aureus directly from sample. Microb Genom. 2025 Jun; 11(6).

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Wang Q, Wang BY, Williams S, Xie H. Diversity and Characteristics of the Oral Microbiome Associated with Self-Reported Ancestral/Ethnic Groups. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Dec 11; 25(24).

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Moon KS, Kang JS, Lee SQ, Thompson J, Satterlee N. Wireless Mouth Motion Recognition System Based on EEG-EMG Sensors for Severe Speech Impairments. Sensors (Basel). 2024 Jun 25; 24(13).

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Ramage G, Borghi E, Rodrigues CF, Kean R, Williams C, Lopez-Ribot J. Our current clinical understanding of Candida biofilms: where are we two decades on? APMIS. 2023 Nov; 131(11):636-653.

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Wang BY, Cao A, Ho MH, Wilus D, Sheng S, Meng HW, Guerra E, Hong J, Xie H. Identification of microbiological factors associated with periodontal health disparities. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2023; 13:1137067.

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Hernandez BY, Zhu X, Risch HA, Lu L, Ma X, Irwin ML, Lim JK, Taddei TH, Pawlish KS, Stroup AM, Brown R, Wang Z, Wong LL, Yu H. Oral Cyanobacteria and Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 01; 31(1):221-229.

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Wu Z, Han Y, Caporaso JG, Bokulich N, Mohamadkhani A, Moayyedkazemi A, Hua X, Kamangar F, Wan Y, Suman S, Zhu B, Hutchinson A, Dagnall C, Jones K, Hicks B, Shi J, Malekzadeh R, Abnet CC, Pourshams A, Vogtmann E. Cigarette Smoking and Opium Use in Relation to the Oral Microbiota in Iran. Microbiol Spectr. 2021 10 31; 9(2):e0013821.

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Chen JZ, Joshipura KJ, Habash F, Lopez-Candales A. Dentists and physicians' practices meet once again: Potential unfavorable clinical effects of frequent mouthwash use. Postgrad Med. 2021 Mar; 133(2):123-124.

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Joshipura K, Mu?oz-Torres F, Fern?ndez-Santiago J, Patel RP, Lopez-Candales A. Over-the-counter mouthwash use, nitric oxide and hypertension risk. Blood Press. 2020 04; 29(2):103-112.

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Soares-Castro P, Ara?jo-Rodrigues H, Godoy-Vitorino F, Ferreira M, Covelo P, L?pez A, Vingada J, Eira C, Santos PM. Microbiota fingerprints within the oral cavity of cetaceans as indicators for population biomonitoring. Sci Rep. 2019 09 23; 9(1):13679.

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