"British Columbia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A province of Canada on the Pacific coast. Its capital is Victoria. The name given in 1858 derives from the Columbia River which was named by the American captain Robert Gray for his ship Columbia which in turn was named for Columbus. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p178 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p81-2)
| Descriptor ID |
D001955
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.567.176.160
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| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "British Columbia" by people in Profiles.
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TMEM30A loss-of-function mutations drive lymphomagenesis and confer therapeutically exploitable vulnerability in B-cell lymphoma. Nat Med. 2020 04; 26(4):577-588.
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The bi-annual meeting GEOMED was held in October 2011 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Introduction. Stat Methods Med Res. 2012 Oct; 21(5):431.
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Stakeholder perspectives on transitions of nursing home residents to hospital emergency departments and back in two Canadian provinces. J Aging Stud. 2012 Dec; 26(4):419-27.