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Descriptor English: | Bermuda | ||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Bermudas
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Bermudas | ||||
Descriptor French: | Bermudes | ||||
Tree number(s): |
Z01.639.040.390 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001605 | ||||
Scope note: | A British colony in the western North Atlantic Ocean about 640 miles east southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It comprises a group of about 300 islands of which only about 20 are inhabited. It is called also the Bermuda Islands or the Bermudas. It was named for the Spanish explorer Juan Bermudez who visited the islands in 1515. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p140 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p61) |
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Annotation: | a British colony in the North Atlantic |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
EH ethnologie EP épidémiologie |
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DeCS ID: | 1630 | ||||
Unique ID: | D001605 | ||||
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: | 2012/07/03 |
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