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Birth Certificates

"Birth Certificates" 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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Official certifications by a physician recording the individual's birth date, place of birth, parentage and other required identifying data which are filed with the local registrar of vital statistics.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Birth Certificates" by people in this website by year, and whether "Birth Certificates" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 7 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 2004 and 2006 and 2009 and 2010 and 2017 and 2020 and 2023
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