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Cell Phone

"Cell Phone" 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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Analog or digital communications device in which the user has a wireless connection from a telephone to a nearby transmitter. It is termed cellular because the service area is divided into multiple "cells." As the user moves from one cell area to another, the call is transferred to the local transmitter.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cell Phone" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cell Phone" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 32 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2014
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