Detailed overview:
MeSH : Medical Subject Headings
MeSH : Medical Subject Headings
| Title: | MeSH : Medical Subject Headings |
| Title abbreviated: | MeSH |
| Title alternative: | Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus |
| Identifier: | http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/ |
| Publisher: |
National Institutes of Health = NIH / National Library of Medicine = NLM |
| Abstract: | The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary produced by the National Library of Medicine and used for indexing, cataloging, and searching for biomedical and health-related information and documents. 2014 MeSH includes the subject descriptors appearing in MEDLINE®/PubMed®, the NLM catalog database, and other NLM databases. Many synonyms, near-synonyms, and closely related concepts are included as entry terms to help users find the most relevant MeSH descriptor for the concept they are seeking. In NLM's online databases, many terms entered by searchers are automatically mapped to MeSH descriptors to facilitate retrieval of relevant information. Various online systems provide access to MeSH and the vocabulary is available in several online systems. These include the MeSH Browser, containing the complete contents of the vocabulary; the MeSH Entrez databases, which are designed to assist those searching MEDLINE/PubMed; and the UMLS Metathesaurus with links to many other controlled vocabularies. [Information of the supplier] |
| Subject: |
Language and communication (570.14)
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| Audience: | Intermediate; Experts |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | website |
| Resource type: | Other reference works |
| Access: | free |
| Metadata update date: | 2015-10-17 |
| Metadata provider: |
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| URL of this vifabio-resource: | http://www.vifabio.de/en/iqfBio/detail/8314 |
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