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Descriptor English: South America
Descriptor Spanish: América del Sur
Descriptor América del Sur
Entry term(s) Suramérica
Scope note: Continente al sur del hemisferio occidental que se extiende hacia el sur de la frontera entre Colombia y Panamá.
Descriptor Portuguese: América do Sul
Descriptor French: Amérique du Sud
Tree number(s): Z01.107.757
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013020
Scope note: The southern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending southward from the Colombia-Panama border.
Annotation: each South American country is available as a heading
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
DeCS ID: 13403
Unique ID: D013020
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: 2016/07/07
South America - Preferred
Concept UI M0020183
Scope note The southern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending southward from the Colombia-Panama border.
Preferred term South America



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