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Arctic Regions MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


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Arctic Regions
Tree Number(s)
Z01.208
Unique ID
D001110
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001110
Annotation
note spelling: arctic: neither spelled nor pronounced "artic"
Scope Note
The Arctic Ocean and the lands in it and adjacent to it. It includes Point Barrow, Alaska, most of the Franklin District in Canada, two thirds of Greenland, Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Lapland, Novaya Zemlya, and Northern Siberia. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p66)
Date Established
1966/01/01
Date of Entry
1999/01/01
Revision Date
2009/07/30
Arctic Regions Preferred
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