Yukon Territory
"Yukon Territory" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A territory of northwest Canada, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the south by British Columbia, and on the west by Alaska. Its capital is Whitehorse. It takes its name from the Yukon River, the Indian yu-kun-ah, meaning big river. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1367 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p608)
| Descriptor ID |
D015874
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.567.176.929
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