"Quebec" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A province of eastern Canada. Its capital is Quebec. The region belonged to France from 1627 to 1763 when it was lost to the British. The name is from the Algonquian quilibek meaning the place where waters narrow, referring to the gradually narrowing channel of the St. Lawrence or to the narrows of the river at Cape Diamond. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p993 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p440)
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D011792
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.567.176.791
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quebec" by people in Profiles.
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Insomnia and its relationship to health-care utilization, work absenteeism, productivity and accidents. Sleep Med. 2009 Apr; 10(4):427-38.
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Increased maternal age and the risk of fetal death. N Engl J Med. 1995 Oct 12; 333(15):953-7.