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Whales

"Whales" 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.

Large marine mammals of the order CETACEA. In the past, they were commercially valued for whale oil, for their flesh as human food and in ANIMAL FEED and FERTILIZERS, and for baleen. Today, there is a moratorium on most commercial whaling, as all species are either listed as endangered or threatened.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Whales" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Whales" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 15 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2002
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