"Apatites" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of phosphate minerals that includes ten mineral species and has the general formula X5(YO4)3Z, where X is usually calcium or lead, Y is phosphorus or arsenic, and Z is chlorine, fluorine, or OH-. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
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D001031
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.029.260.700.675.374.075.025 D01.146.360.050 D01.578.122 D01.695.625.675.650.075.025
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Somerville AD, Goldstein PS, Baitzel SI, Bruwelheide KL, Dahlstedt AC, Yzurdiaga L, Raubenheimer S, Knudson KJ, Schoeninger MJ. Diet and gender in the Tiwanaku colonies: Stable isotope analysis of human bone collagen and apatite from Moquegua, Peru. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2015 Nov; 158(3):408-22.