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Ontario

"Ontario" 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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A province of Canada lying between the provinces of Manitoba and Quebec. Its capital is Toronto. It takes its name from Lake Ontario which is said to represent the Iroquois oniatariio, beautiful lake. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p892 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p391)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ontario" by people in this website by year, and whether "Ontario" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 50 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2009
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