west indies - CISMeF

Preferred Label : west indies;

MeSH definition : Islands lying between southeastern North America and northern South America, enclosing the Caribbean Sea. They comprise the Greater Antilles (CUBA; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; HAITI; JAMAICA; and PUERTO RICO), the Lesser Antilles (ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA and the other Leeward Islands, BARBADOS; MARTINIQUE and the other Windward Islands, NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES, BRITISH VIRGINI ISLANDS, and the islands north of Venezuela which include TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO), and the BAHAMAS. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1330);

MeSH synonym : caribbean islands;

MeSH hyponym : turks and caicos islands; montserrat; cayman islands;

MeSH annotation : the indentions can be grouped as the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles & the Bahamas: see MeSH definition;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West Indies;

Details

Origin ID

D014900;

UMLS CUI

C0043122;

Allowable qualifiers
- epidemiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethnology [MeSH Qualifier]
Record concept(s)
- cayman islands [MeSH concept]
- montserrat [MeSH concept]
- turks and caicos islands [MeSH concept]
- west indies [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Geographic Area [UMLS semantic type]
Validated automatic mappings to BTNT
- Cayman Islands [NCIt concept]
- Montserrat [NCIt concept]
- Turks and Caicos Islands [NCIt concept]
- Virgin Islands, British [NCIt concept]

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