Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Medicine, U. S. N. L. o. (2023). Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): Tree Structures.

Type

Preprint

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2023

Link

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/intro_retrieval.html

Cited from

education_pedagogy, pharmacology_toxicology

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Hierarchical Address
  • Biomedical indexing locates descriptors within branches of a classification tree, where the prefix of each code names the ancestor categories and a single descriptor may carry several addresses when it sits in multiple branches.

    This sourceSpecifies MeSH tree numbers as dotted hierarchical addresses whose prefixes name ancestor categories, with a descriptor able to carry several tree numbers when it sits in multiple branches.

• Retired Term
  • In controlled vocabularies and thesauri, withdrawn headings are retained as searchable but non-assignable, with cross-references to current preferred terms.

    This sourceDocuments the 'Previous Indexing' apparatus and see-references by which superseded/withdrawn MeSH headings remain usable for retrospective searching mapped to current preferred terms.

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Links previously used in the corpus

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• https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/intro_trees.html ×1

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