"Black Widow Spider" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A venomous New World spider with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the abdomen.
| Descriptor ID |
D001740
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.166.803.200
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| Concept/Terms |
Black Widow Spider- Black Widow Spider
- Black Widow Spiders
- Spider, Black Widow
- Spiders, Black Widow
- Widow Spider, Black
- Widow Spiders, Black
- Latrodectus mactans
- Latrodectus mactan
- mactan, Latrodectus
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Black Widow Spider" by people in Profiles.
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What's eating you? Latrodectus mactans (the black widow spider). Cutis. 2002 Apr; 69(4):257-8.
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1990 South Carolina Physician Survey of tick, spider and fire ant morbidity. J S C Med Assoc. 1991 Aug; 87(8):429-32.