"North 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.
The northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending northward from the Colombia-Panama border and including CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO, Caribbean area, the UNITED STATES, CANADA and GREENLAND. The term often refers more narrowly to MEXICO, continental UNITED STATES, AND CANADA.
| Descriptor ID |
D009656
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.567
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "North America" by people in Profiles.
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Crowd-sourced observations of a polyphagous moth reveal evidence of allochronic speciation varying along a latitudinal gradient. PLoS One. 2023; 18(7):e0288415.
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How and why grasshopper community maturation rates are slowing on a North American tall grass prairie. Biol Lett. 2022 01; 18(1):20210510.
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Tracing Transmission of Sin Nombre Virus and Discovery of Infection in Multiple Rodent Species. J Virol. 2021 11 09; 95(23):e0153421.
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How and why plant ionomes vary across North American grasslands and its implications for herbivore abundance. Ecology. 2021 10; 102(10):e03459.
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Integration of Educational Technology. Surg Clin North Am. 2021 Aug; 101(4):693-701.
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Social Media Use Among Neurosurgery Trainees: A Survey of North American Training Programs. World Neurosurg. 2021 10; 154:e605-e615.
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The Incidence of Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features: A Meta-Analysis Assessing Worldwide Impact of the Reclassification. Thyroid. 2021 10; 31(10):1502-1513.
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Plasticity of cold hardiness in the eastern spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 2021 09; 259:110998.
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Anti-MDA5 autoantibodies associated with juvenile dermatomyositis constitute a distinct phenotype in North America. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2021 04 06; 60(4):1839-1849.
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Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures. Glob Chang Biol. 2021 07; 27(13):3009-3034.