What does MeSH stand for?

Medical Subject Headings

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Some of the Medical Subject Headings (MESH) in PubMed assigned to gender-specific medicine articles include "sex factors," meaning "maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result;" and "sex characteristics," meaning "those characteristics that distinguish one sex from the other" (National Library of Medicine, n.

Women's health: librarian as social entrepreneur

Information is prepared in the form of "citations"--one for each article--by NLM's skilled indexers and revisers who code each article according to such categories as author's name, the title of the article, the name and date of the journal in which it appeared, the language in which it was written, and a number of medical subject headings that describe as completely as possible the article's subject content.

Meet PubMed's grandfather

In the best cases, one query via HONselect will result in a selection of five types of resources from leading databases: The Medical Subject Headings thesaurus of the National Library of Medicine, scientific journal articles, daily news items, medical illustrations and images, and Web sites.

Laura Hyatt's Guide to Post-Acute Sites

Revised search strategy: Medical Subject Headings According to information on the PubMed Web site, Medical Subject Headings (MESH) are a controlled vocabulary that the National Library of Medicine uses to index articles.

Clinical question. (Evidence in Practice)

One of the hallmarks of the Medline database is the application of controlled medical subject headings (called MeSH) to each record.

Searching Medline with PubMed

It also features a unique and innovative database navigation system based wholly upon the National Library of Medicines Medical Subject Headings (MeSH(R)) indexing system.

Healthnostics Upgrades Medbioworld.com Portal Web Site

Because PubMed might not use this keyword, I decided to consult PubMed's Medical Subject Headings (MESH) to verify that this keyword could be used in the search.

Evidence in practice

In Medical Subject Headings, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) (1989) defines meta-analysis as a "quantitative method of combining the results of independent studies (usually drawn from the published literature) and synthesizing summaries and conclusions which may be used to evaluate therapeutic effectiveness, plan new studies, etc.

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