Terms & Properties

Concept Unique Identifier (CUI): C0003980

NCI Thesaurus Code: C26273  (see NCI Thesaurus info)

Semantic Type: Geographic Area

NCIt Definition: The world's largest continent; it occupies the eastern part of the Eurasian landmass and its adjacent islands and is separated from Europe by the Ural Mountains.

CSP Definition: continent of the eastern hemisphere north of the equator forming a single landmass with Europe, the conventional dividing line being the Ural mountains; has numerous large offshore islands, some south of the equator.

MSH Definition: The largest of the continents. It was known to the Romans more specifically as what we know today as Asia Minor. The name comes from at least two possible sources: from the Assyrian asu (to rise) or from the Sanskrit usa (dawn), both with reference to its being the land of the rising sun, i.e., eastern as opposed to Europe, to the west. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p82 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p34)

Synonyms & Abbreviations: (see Synonym Details)

Asia (geographic location)

Asia, NOS

Asia

External Source Codes: 

NCI Thesaurus Code

C26273 (see NCI Thesaurus info)

Other Properties:

Name	Value	Source
ACTIVE	1	SNOMEDCT_US
AN	several geog subdivisions & all Asiatic countries are available as headings	MSH
AQL	EH EP	MSH
CASE_SIGNIFICANCE_ID	900000000000017005	SNOMEDCT_US
CTV3ID	Ua05X	SNOMEDCT_US
DC	4	MSH
DEFINITION_STATUS_ID	900000000000074008	SNOMEDCT_US
DID	1266-8036	CSP
DX	19660101	MSH
EFFECTIVE_TIME	20020131	SNOMEDCT_US
MDA	19990101	MSH
MMR	20220708	MSH
MN	Z01.252	MSH
SUBSET_MEMBER	900000000000497000~MAPTARGET~Ua05X	SNOMEDCT_US
TERMUI	T003604	MSH
TH	POPLINE (1978)	MSH
TYPE_ID	900000000000003001	SNOMEDCT_US
TYPE_ID	900000000000013009	SNOMEDCT_US

Additional Concept Data:  (none)

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