haiti - CISMeF

Preferred Label : haiti;

MeSH definition : A republic in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies. Its capital is Port-au-Prince. With the Dominican Republic it forms the island of Hispaniola - Haiti occupying the western third and the Dominican Republic, the eastern two thirds. Haiti belonged to France from 1697 until its rule was challenged by slave insurrections from 1791. It became a republic in 1820. It was virtually an American protectorate from 1915 to 1934. It adopted its present constitution in 1964 and amended it in 1971. The name may represent either of two Caribbean words, haiti, mountain land, or jhaiti, nest. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p481 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p225);

MeSH annotation : with the Dominican Republic Hispaniola, a hist name for the island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies;

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

Details

Origin ID

D006205;

UMLS CUI

C0018510;

Allowable qualifiers
- epidemiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethnology [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Haiti [UNESCO concept]
- Haiti [IAB term]
Record concept(s)
- haiti [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Geographic Area [UMLS semantic type]

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