africa - CISMeF

Preferred Label : africa;

MeSH definition : The continent south of EUROPE, east of the ATLANTIC OCEAN and west of the INDIAN OCEAN.;

MeSH annotation : for the continent or unspecified only: prefer smaller geographic subdivisions, as AFRICA, NORTHERN; AFRICA, CENTRAL; etc.;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa;

Details

Origin ID

D000349;

UMLS CUI

C0001737;

Allowable qualifiers
- epidemiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethnology [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Africa [PASCAL theme]
- Africa [FRANCIS theme]
- Africa [FRANCIS theme]
- Africa [FRANCIS theme]
- Africa [FRANCIS theme]
- Africa [FRANCIS theme]
- Africa [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
- Africa [UNESCO concept]
- Africa [UNESCO microthesaurus]
- African continent [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
Record concept(s)
- africa [MeSH concept]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- African Union [MeSH Descriptor]
- Black People [MeSH Descriptor]
- Black or African American [MeSH Descriptor]
- medicine, african traditional [MeSH Descriptor]
- trypanosomiasis, african [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Geographic Area [UMLS semantic type]

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