Medical Subject Headings

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a way to keep track of the purpose of journal articles and books in the life sciences. It can also serve as a thesaurus that makes searching easier. Created and updated by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), it is used by the MEDLINE/PubMed article database and by NLM's catalog of book holdings.

MeSH was introduced in 1963. The yearly printed version was discontinued in 2007 and MeSH is now available online only.^[1] It can be browsed and downloaded free of charge through PubMed. Originally in English, MeSH has been translated into a lot of other languages and allows retrieval of documents from different languages.

NIH NLM (Library) Interactive browser.

Medical Subject Headings Media

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Hierarchical relationships in MeSH 2005: Stomach Neoplasms and all of its broader terms

Related pages

List of MeSH codes

References

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