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Oceans and Seas

Medical Definition:
Guide Notes:	no qualif; for oceans & seas not main headings, index under OCEANS AND SEAS: do not coord with a geog land mass, e.g., Indian Ocean = OCEANS AND SEAS but not also India
Also Called:	Oceans,Seas

Oceans and Seas Categories.

	Atlantic Ocean
	Indian Ocean - A body of water covering approximately one-fifth of the total ocean area of the earth, extending amidst Africa in the west, Australia in the east, Asia in the north, and Antarctica in the south. Including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, it constitutes the third largest ocean after the ATLANTIC OCEAN and the PACIFIC OCEAN. (New Encyclopaedia Britannica Micropaedia, 15th ed, 1990, p289)
	Mediterranean Sea
	Pacific Ocean

Oceans and Seas Medical Definitions and Terms

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