indian ocean - CISMeF

Preferred Label : indian ocean;

MeSH definition : A body of water covering approximately one-fifth of the total ocean area of the earth, extending amidst Africa in the west, Australia in the east, Asia in the north, and Antarctica in the south. Including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, it constitutes the third largest ocean after the ATLANTIC OCEAN and the PACIFIC OCEAN. (New Encyclopaedia Britannica Micropaedia, 15th ed, 1990, p289);

MeSH hyponym : persian gulf; red sea;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian Ocean;

Details

Origin ID

D019156;

UMLS CUI

C0376441;

Allowable qualifiers
- epidemiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethnology [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Indian Ocean [UNESCO concept]
- Red Sea [UNESCO concept]
Record concept(s)
- indian ocean [MeSH concept]
- persian gulf [MeSH concept]
- red sea [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Geographic Area [UMLS semantic type]

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