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Descriptor English: Ontario
Descriptor Spanish: Ontario
Descriptor Ontario
Scope note: Provincia de Canadá situada entre las provincias de Manitoba y Quebec. Su capital es Ontario. Toma su nombre del Lago Ontario, que se dice significa, en iroqués, oniatariio, bello lago. (Traducción libre del original: Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p892 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p391)
Descriptor Portuguese: Ontário
Descriptor French: Ontario
Tree number(s): Z01.107.567.176.639
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009864
Scope note: A province of Canada lying between the provinces of Manitoba and Quebec. Its capital is Toronto. It takes its name from Lake Ontario which is said to represent the Iroquois oniatariio, beautiful lake. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p892 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p391)
Annotation: a province of Canada
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
DeCS ID: 10047
Unique ID: D009864
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1995/02/21
Ontario - Preferred
Concept UI M0015306
Scope note A province of Canada lying between the provinces of Manitoba and Quebec. Its capital is Toronto. It takes its name from Lake Ontario which is said to represent the Iroquois oniatariio, beautiful lake. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p892 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p391)
Preferred term Ontario



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