"Black Widow Spider" 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.
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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