nova scotia - CISMeF

Preferred Label : nova scotia;

MeSH definition : A province of eastern Canada, one of the Maritime Provinces with NEW BRUNSWICK; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND; and sometimes NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. Its capital is Halifax. The territory was granted in 1621 by James I to the Scotsman Sir William Alexander and was called Nova Scotia, the Latin for New Scotland. The territory had earlier belonged to the French, under the name of Acadia. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p871 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p384);

MeSH annotation : a province of eastern Canada;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova Scotia;

Details

Origin ID

D009674;

UMLS CUI

C0028441;

Allowable qualifiers
- epidemiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethnology [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Northwest Territories (geographic location) [SNOMED CT concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Nova Scotia [NCIt concept]
- Nova Scotia (geographic location) [SNOMED CT concept]
Record concept(s)
- nova scotia [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Geographic Area [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Nova Scotia [NCIt concept]
- Nova Scotia (geographic location) [SNOMED CT concept]

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