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South America

"South America" 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 southern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending southward from the Colombia-Panama border.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "South America" by people in this website by year, and whether "South America" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2005 and 2008 and 2009 and 2013 and 2014 and 2015 and 2017 and 2018 and 2019
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