americas - CISMeF

Preferred Label : americas;

MeSH definition : The general name for NORTH AMERICA; CENTRAL AMERICA; and SOUTH AMERICA unspecified or combined.;

MeSH synonym : america;

MeSH annotation : too general; avoid; prefer specific continents or countries; titles saying American are likely to be indexed to UNITED STATES, not here;

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

Details

Origin ID

D000569;

UMLS CUI

C0002454;

Allowable qualifiers
- epidemiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethnology [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- America [PASCAL theme]
- America [FRANCIS theme]
- American Ethnicity [NCIt concept]
- American continent [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
- Americas [UNESCO concept]
Record concept(s)
- americas [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Geographic Area [UMLS semantic type]

Keyword's position in hierarchy(ies) :

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