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Medical Subject Headings

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. It serves as a thesaurus of index terms that facilitates searching. Created and updated by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), it is used by the MEDLINE/PubMed article database and by…

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Authors
F. B. Rogers
Data types captured
controlled vocabulary
Description
Medical Subject Headings
Laboratory
United States National Library of Medicine
Research center
United States National Library of Medicine National Center for Biotechnology Information

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Medical Subject Headings

Nodes24
Edges23
Triples9
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.083333
Components1

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Medical Subject Headings

Top relations

Authors · 1
Medical Subject Headings → F. B. Rogers
Data types captured · 1
Medical Subject Headings → controlled vocabulary
Description · 1
Medical Subject Headings → Medical Subject Headings
Laboratory · 1
Medical Subject Headings → United States National Library of Medicine
Primary citation · 1
Medical Subject Headings → .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…
Research center · 1
Medical Subject Headings → United States National Library of Medicine National Center for Biotechnology Information
Website · 1
Medical Subject Headings → nlm.nih.gov/mesh

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Important terminology

mesh subject descriptor headings terms also pubmed descriptors gov used medline see vocabulary term hierarchy qualifiers clinicaltrials medical controlled medicine

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Medical Subject HeadingsAuthorsF. B. Rogers1.00infobox
Medical Subject HeadingsData types capturedcontrolled vocabulary1.00infobox
Medical Subject HeadingsDescriptionMedical Subject Headings1.00infobox
Medical Subject HeadingsLaboratoryUnited States National Library of Medicine1.00infobox
Medical Subject HeadingsPrimary citation.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…1.00infobox
Medical Subject HeadingsResearch centerUnited States National Library of Medicine National Center for Biotechnology Information1.00infobox
Medical Subject HeadingsWebsitenlm.nih.gov/mesh1.00infobox
chemical productsinstance ofwhich describes substances0.80text
drugs that are not included in the headingsinstance ofwhich describes substances0.80text

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