"Mastodons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An extinct genus of large mammals in the family Mammutidae, that fed by browsing on tall plants. Eurasian species died out three million years ago, but some specimens of the American Mastodon survived the last Ice Age.
| Descriptor ID |
D056666
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.833.525
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| Concept/Terms |
American Mastodon- American Mastodon
- American Mastodons
- Mastodon, American
- Mastodons, American
- Mammut americanum
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