Medical Subject Headings
NLM's controlled vocabulary for biomedical literature. ~30,000 descriptors. Powers PubMed search.
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PubMed literature search and indexing
Biomedical research classification
Systematic review search strategies
Health sciences library cataloging
US-PDEnglish MeSH is a US Government work; translations are UMLS SRL 3.
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