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Caribbean Region

"Caribbean Region" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The area that lies between continental North and South America and comprises the Caribbean Sea, the West Indies, and the adjacent mainland regions of southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Caribbean Region" by people in this website by year, and whether "Caribbean Region" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 15 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2011
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