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Descriptor English: Sri Lanka
Descriptor Spanish: Sri Lanka
Descriptor Sri Lanka
Entry term(s) Ceilán
Scope note: País de Asia del Sur, una isla situada en el océano Índico, al sur de la India. Su capital es Colombo.
Descriptor Portuguese: Sri Lanka
Descriptor French: Sri Lanka
Entry term(s): Ceylon
Tree number(s): Z01.252.245.782.984
Z01.639.520.875
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013188
Scope note: Country in southern Asia, an island in the Indian Ocean, south of India. The capital is Colombo.
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
Online Note: use SRI LANKA to search CEYLON 1966-76
History Note: 77; was CEYLON 1963-76
DeCS ID: 13575
Unique ID: D013188
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1977/01/01
Date of Entry: 1976/04/16
Revision Date: 2017/12/11
Sri Lanka - Preferred
Concept UI M0020403
Scope note Country in southern Asia, an island in the Indian Ocean, south of India. The capital is Colombo.
Preferred term Sri Lanka
Entry term(s) Ceylon



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