Medical Subject Headings
Controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences
Also known as MeSH · MeSH vocabulary
- Instance of
- thesaurus
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Sources- 1.Stated in Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & ClassificationsRetrieved 2020-03-30
- , medical database
- , controlled vocabulary
- thesaurus
- Founded
- 1960
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Sources- 1.“Preface - History of MeSH”nlm.nih.gov/mesh/intro_preface.html#pref_histRetrieved 2025-11-00
- 1960
Overview
All data
51 statements · 29% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Short name
- MeSH
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Sources- 1.Stated in Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & ClassificationsRetrieved 2020-03-30
- MeSH
- Author
- United States National Library of Medicine
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Sources- 1.Stated in Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & ClassificationsRetrieved 2020-03-30
- 2.Stated in Virtual International Authority FileRetrieved 2020-03-30
- United States National Library of Medicine
- Title
- Medical Subject Headings
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Sources- 1.Stated in Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & ClassificationsRetrieved 2020-03-30
- Medical Subject Headings
- Country of origin
- United States
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Sources- 1.Stated in Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & ClassificationsRetrieved 2020-03-30
- United States
- Legal citation of this text
- pmid = 13982385
On other databases
22 identifiers linking Medical Subject Headings across the web's reference databases
- BabelNet ID00195063n
- BARTOC ID391
- Datahub pagebioportal-msh
- Dewey Decimal Classification610
- EDAM Ontology IDdata_1717
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)1nl3QP
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)90255
- FactGrid item IDQ1194784
- FAST ID1356817
- Freebase ID/m/03f7mv9
- J9U entity ID987007333371805171
- LC and MARC vocabularies IDsubjectSchemes/mesh
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn2013188677
- Linked Open Data Cloud IDbioportal-msh
- MeSH concept IDM0455054
- MeSH descriptor IDD046650
- MeSH term IDT553943
- MeSH tree codeL01.462.750.245.945.700.500
- National Library of Israel ID (old)004439754
- Research Vocabularies Australia ID7
- UMLS CUIC1135584
- VIAF cluster ID305937419