Named Groups

Central American Indians

Members of indigenous Central American populations with pre-colonial contact origins.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Members of indigenous Central American populations with pre-colonial contact origins.

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Synonyms

13 entry terms
  • Amerinds, Central American
  • Indians, Central American
  • Indigenous Central Americans
  • American Amerind, Central
  • American Indian, Central
  • American, Indigenous Central
  • Amerind, Central American
  • Central American Amerind
  • Central American Amerinds
  • Central American Indian
  • Central American, Indigenous
  • Indian, Central American
  • Indigenous Central American

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Aspects Covered

8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, education, ethnology, genetics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data.

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Indexing Annotation

specify geographic location if possible; not for Indians of Mexico ( = INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN + MEXICO)

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History Note

78

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Previous Indexing

  • Indians, South American (1966-1977)

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Tree Numbers

  1. M01w.270.968w.500.575w
  2. M01w.686.429w.500w
  3. M01w.686.477w.250.575w

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Central American Indians. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007197. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007197
  2. Central American Indians. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Central_America
  3. Central American Indians. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13109203