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MeSH publications assist users of the National Library of Medicine's database – MEDLINE - and its backfiles. More than 11 million citations indexing major medical, biological, and other life sciences journals from 1966 to the present may be searched on MEDLINE.
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MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity. MeSH descriptors are arranged in both an alphabetic and a hierarchical structure.
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This publication contains an alphabetic list of all subject descriptors used by indexers and catalogers at the National Library of Medicine. It includes: Introduction, with explanatory material and lists of new entries; Subject Headings; Cross-References; Geographic Headings; Non-MeSH Terms; Check Tags, Tree Numbers; and Notes for Indexers, Catalogers, and Online Searchers.
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This document arranges all of the Medical Subject Headings in a hierarchical manner showing relationships between broader and narrower terms. Included are geographic descriptors as well as annotations preceding each subcategory in the hierarchy.