| Descriptor English: | New Guinea | ||||
| Descriptor Spanish: |
Nueva Guinea
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| Descriptor Portuguese: | Nova Guiné | ||||
| Descriptor French: | Nouvelle-Guinée | ||||
| Tree number(s): |
Z01.586.650 |
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| RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009512 | ||||
| Scope note: | Originally an island of the Malay Archipelago, the second largest island in the world. It divided, West New Guinea becoming part of Indonesia and East New Guinea becoming Papua New Guinea. |
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| Annotation: | East New Guinea is a part of Papua New Guinea & West New Guinea is part of Indonesia |
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| Allowable Qualifiers: |
EH ethnology EP epidemiology |
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| DeCS ID: | 9699 | ||||
| Unique ID: | D009512 | ||||
| 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: | 1993/04/22 |
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New Guinea
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| Concept UI |
M0014792 |
| Scope note | Originally an island of the Malay Archipelago, the second largest island in the world. It divided, West New Guinea becoming part of Indonesia and East New Guinea becoming Papua New Guinea. |
| Preferred term | New Guinea |
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