Reference record for OID 2.16.840.1.113883.6.177

The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus is a controlled and hierarchically-organized vocabulary produced by the National Library of Medicine. It is used for indexing, cataloging, and searching of biomedical and health-related information. MeSH includes the subject headings appearing in MEDLINE/PubMed, the NLM Catalog, and other NLM databases. MeSH can be downloaded from https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/mesh.html MeSH can be browsed here: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/search

Status in source: active.

Names: MeSH

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• HL7 Terminology · Publisher's source file
  Source location: package/NamingSystem-MeSH.json#/uniqueId/0.
  Source version and references

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