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Concept Unique Identifier (CUI): C0034044

NCI Thesaurus Code: C17043  (see NCI Thesaurus info)

Semantic Type: Geographic Area

NCIt Definition: An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the British Virgin Islands.

CDISC Definition: An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic. (NCI)

CSP Definition: island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies; a self-governing commonwealth in union with the United States.

MSH Definition: An island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies. Its capital is San Juan. It is a self-governing commonwealth in union with the United States. It was discovered by Columbus in 1493 but no colonization was attempted until 1508. It belonged to Spain until ceded to the United States in 1898. It became a commonwealth with autonomy in internal affairs in 1952. Columbus named the island San Juan for St. John's Day, the Monday he arrived, and the bay Puerto Rico, rich harbor. The island became Puerto Rico officially in 1932. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p987 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p436)

Synonyms & Abbreviations: (see Synonym Details)
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PRI
PR
Puerto Rico (geographic location)
Puerto Rico

External Source Codes: 
NCI Thesaurus Code C17043 (see NCI Thesaurus info)

Other Properties: Property Definitions
Name Value Source
ACTIVE 1 SNOMEDCT_US
AN an island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies; for Puerto Rico as a geog entity (as in epidemiol articles) & for Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico; for Puerto Ricans living in the United States as an ethnic group, coord PUERTO RICO /ethnol (NIM) + HISPANIC OR LATINO (IM) MSH
AQL EH EP MSH
CASE_SIGNIFICANCE_ID 900000000000017005 SNOMEDCT_US
Contributing_Source CDISC NCI
Contributing_Source FDA NCI
Contributing_Source GDC NCI
Contributing_Source SeroNet NCI
CTV3ID Ua08q SNOMEDCT_US
DC 4 MSH
DEFINITION_STATUS_ID 900000000000074008 SNOMEDCT_US
DID 1276-7775 CSP
DX 19660101 MSH
EFFECTIVE_TIME 20020131 SNOMEDCT_US
MDA 19990101 MSH
MMR 20210712 MSH
MN Z01.107.084.900.750 MSH
MN Z01.639.880.750 MSH
SUBSET_MEMBER 900000000000497000~MAPTARGET~Ua08q SNOMEDCT_US
TERMUI T034384 MSH
TH POPLINE (1978) MSH
TYPE_ID 900000000000003001 SNOMEDCT_US
TYPE_ID 900000000000013009 SNOMEDCT_US

Additional Concept Data:  (none)

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