Ethnic Cleansing

"Ethnic Cleansing" 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.

MeSH information

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Expulsion of a population from a given territory due to religious or ethnic discrimination, political, strategic or ideological considerations, or a combination of these.

Descriptor ID	D065811
MeSH Number(s)	I01.198.240.903.074 I01.880.735.900.575.500 I01.880.735.950.500.903.074
Concept/Terms	Ethnic Cleansing Ethnic Cleansing Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansings, Ethnic Ethnic Cleansings

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Ethnic Cleansing".

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Criminology [I01.198]
Crime [I01.198.240]
War Crimes [I01.198.240.903]
Ethnic Cleansing [I01.198.240.903.074]
Sociology [I01.880]
Social Problems [I01.880.735]
Violence [I01.880.735.900]
Ethnic Violence [I01.880.735.900.575]
Ethnic Cleansing [I01.880.735.900.575.500]
Warfare and Armed Conflicts [I01.880.735.950]
Warfare [I01.880.735.950.500]
War Crimes [I01.880.735.950.500.903]
Ethnic Cleansing [I01.880.735.950.500.903.074]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Ethnic Cleansing".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Ethnic Cleansing".

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