quebec - CISMeF

Preferred Label : quebec;

MeSH definition : A province of eastern Canada. Its capital is Quebec. The region belonged to France from 1627 to 1763 when it was lost to the British. The name is from the Algonquian quilibek meaning the place where waters narrow, referring to the gradually narrowing channel of the St. Lawrence or to the narrows of the river at Cape Diamond. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p993 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p440);

MeSH annotation : a province of eastern Canada;

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

Details

Origin ID

D011792;

UMLS CUI

C0034390;

Allowable qualifiers
- epidemiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethnology [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Quebec (geographic location) [SNOMED CT concept]
Record concept(s)
- quebec [MeSH concept]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- canada [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Geographic Area [UMLS semantic type]

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