Gulf of Mexico
"Gulf of Mexico" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A body of water located at the southeastern corner of North America. It is bordered by the states to the north of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas; by five Mexican states to the west: Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan; and by Cuba to the southeast.
| Descriptor ID |
D060851
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.296
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