appears_in: [] contact: email: willisj@mail.nlm.nih.gov name: Jan Willis, NLM depends_on: [] deprecated: false description: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) 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. This thesaurus is used by NLM for indexing articles from biomedical journals, cataloguing of books, documents, etc. example: C063233 example_extras: - D000001 homepage: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/ keywords: - bioinformatics - biomedical science - classification - data model - data retrieval - life science - literature curation - metascience - ontology - topics license: CC0-1.0 mappings: aberowl: MESH bartoc: '391' biocontext: MESH biolink: MESH bioportal: MESH cellosaurus: MeSH edam: '1177' fairsharing: FAIRsharing.qnkw45 go: MeSH hl7: 2.16.840.1.113883.6.177 integbio: nbdc00132 miriam: mesh n2t: mesh prefixcommons: mesh togoid: Mesh wikidata: P486 name: Medical Subject Headings namespace_in_lui: false pattern: ^(C|D)\d{6,9}$ preferred_prefix: mesh prefix: mesh providers: - code: bio2rdf description: Bio2RDF is an open-source project that uses Semantic Web technologies to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the Life Sciences. Bio2RDF defines a set of simple conventions to create RDF(S) compatible Linked Data from a diverse set of heterogeneously formatted sources obtained from multiple data providers. homepage: https://bio2rdf.org name: Bio2RDF uri_format: http://bio2rdf.org/mesh:$1 publications: - pmc: PMC197951 pubmed: '13982385' title: Medical subject headings year: 1963 rdf_uri_format: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/$1 synonyms: - MESH - MESHA - MESHC - MESHCS - MESHD - MESHPP - MESH_DESCRIPTOR_UI - MESH_SUPPLEMENTAL_RECORD_UI - MSH - MSH2010_2010_02_22 uri_format: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=$1