"Bahrain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An independent state, an archipelago in the western Persian Gulf, northwest of Qatar. It comprises low-lying islands of Bahrain (the largest), Muharraq, Sitra, and several islets. It has extensive oil fields. The name comes from the Arabic al-bahrayn, "the two seas", with reference to its lying in the middle of a bay with its "two seas" east and west of it. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p107 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p45)
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D001445
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.252.245.500.175
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| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Bahrain" by people in Profiles.
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Increasing Incidence of Crohn's Disease with Familial Clustering in the Kingdom of Bahrain: A 25-Year Population-based Study. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2017 02; 23(2):304-309.