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Descriptor en español: |
Puerto Rico
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Descriptor en inglés: | Puerto Rico | ||||
Descriptor en portugués: | Porto Rico | ||||
Descriptor en francés: | Porto Rico | ||||
Código(s) jeráquico(s): |
Z01.107.084.900.750 Z01.639.880.750 |
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Identificador Único RDF: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011647 | ||||
Nota de alcance: | An island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies. Its capital is San Juan. It is a self-governing commonwealth in union with the United States. It was discovered by Columbus in 1493 but no colonization was attempted until 1508. It belonged to Spain until ceded to the United States in 1898. It became a commonwealth with autonomy in internal affairs in 1952. Columbus named the island San Juan for St. John's Day, the Monday he arrived, and the bay Puerto Rico, rich harbor. The island became Puerto Rico officially in 1932. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p987 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p436) |
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Nota de indización: | an island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies; for Puerto Rico as a geog entity (as in epidemiol articles) & for Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico; for Puerto Ricans living in the United States as an ethnic group, coord PUERTO RICO /ethnol (NIM) + HISPANIC OR LATINO (IM) |
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Calificadores permitidos: |
EH ethnology EP epidemiology |
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Identificador de DeCS: | 12083 | ||||
ID del Descriptor: | D011647 | ||||
Documentos indizados en la Biblioteca Virtual de Salud (BVS): | Haga clic aquí para acceder a los documentos de la BVS | ||||
Fecha de establecimiento: | 01/01/1966 | ||||
Fecha de entrada: | 01/01/1999 | ||||
Fecha de revisión: | 03/07/2012 |
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M0018118 |
Nota de alcance | An island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies. Its capital is San Juan. It is a self-governing commonwealth in union with the United States. It was discovered by Columbus in 1493 but no colonization was attempted until 1508. It belonged to Spain until ceded to the United States in 1898. It became a commonwealth with autonomy in internal affairs in 1952. Columbus named the island San Juan for St. John's Day, the Monday he arrived, and the bay Puerto Rico, rich harbor. The island became Puerto Rico officially in 1932. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p987 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p436) |
Término preferido | Puerto Rico |
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