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Situs Inversus

"Situs Inversus" 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.

A congenital abnormality in which organs in the THORAX and the ABDOMEN are opposite to their normal positions (situs solitus) due to lateral transposition. Normally the STOMACH and SPLEEN are on the left, LIVER on the right, the three-lobed right lung is on the right, and the two-lobed left lung on the left. Situs inversus has a familial pattern and has been associated with a number of genes related to microtubule-associated proteins.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Situs Inversus" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Situs Inversus" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 29 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2010
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