"Indian Ocean" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A body of water covering approximately one-fifth of the total ocean area of the earth, extending amidst Africa in the west, Australia in the east, Asia in the north, and Antarctica in the south. Including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, it constitutes the third largest ocean after the ATLANTIC OCEAN and the PACIFIC OCEAN. (New Encyclopaedia Britannica Micropaedia, 15th ed, 1990, p289)
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D019156
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.756.342
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Indian Ocean" by people in Profiles.
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Magalh?es WF, Bailey-Brock J, Watling L. Four new species of Magelona (Annelida: Magelonidae) from?Easter Island, Guam and Hawaii. Zootaxa. 2018 Aug 09; 4457(3):379-396.
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Sang S, Cheng X, Zhu N, Wang M, Jhoo JW, Stark RE, Badmaev V, Ghai G, Rosen RT, Ho CT. Iridoid glycosides from the leaves of Morinda citrifolia. J Nat Prod. 2001 Jun; 64(6):799-800.