antarctic regions

Preferred Label : antarctic regions;

MeSH definition : The continent lying around the South Pole and the southern waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. It includes the Falkland Islands Dependencies. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p55);

MeSH synonym : Antarctica; Antarctic; Antarctic Region;

MeSH annotation : note spelling: -ARCTIC: neither spelled nor pronounced antartic;

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

Details

Origin ID

D000864;

UMLS CUI

C0454691;

Allowable qualifiers
- epidemiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethnology [MeSH Qualifier]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Antarctica [NCIt concept]
- Antarctica (geographic location) [SNOMED CT concept]
Record concept(s)
- Southern Pacific Ocean [MeSH concept]
- antarctic regions [MeSH concept]
See also
- Climatic Zones [DeCS]
- Cold Zones [DeCS]
- Glacial Ecosystem [DeCS]
Semantic type(s)
- Geographic Area [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Antarctica [NCIt concept]
- Antarctica (geographic location) [SNOMED CT concept]

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