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Middle East

"Middle East" 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 region of southwest Asia and northeastern Africa usually considered as extending from Libya on the west to Afghanistan on the east. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Middle East" by people in this website by year, and whether "Middle East" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2016
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