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.
- Prefix
mesh- Alternative Prefixes
- MESH meshUID MESHD MESH_SUPPLEMENTAL_RECORD_UI MSH MESHPP MESH_DESCRIPTOR_UI MESHCS MESHC MESHA MSH2010_2010_02_22
- Keywords
- bioinformatics biomedical science classification data model data retrieval life science literature curation metascience ontology topics
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- CC0-1.0
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- Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
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Local identifiers in Medical Subject Headings should match this regular expression:
^(C|D|M)\d{6,9}$ - Example Local Unique Identifiers
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C063233
Resolve
D000001 Resolve - Pattern for CURIES
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Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Medical Subject Headings should match this regular expression:
^mesh:(C|D|M)\d{6,9}$ - Example CURIEs
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mesh:C063233
mesh:D000001 - Publications
- 1963 Medical subject headings
- Contributors
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- contributor Roman Baum 0000-0001-5246-9351 rombaum
Ontology
A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.
- Provided By
- ctd.chemical ctd.disease mesh.2012 mesh.2013
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Has Parts (
bfo:0000051) - mesh.vocab
Metaregistry Medical Subject Headings
The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 16 mappings to external registries for this resource with 7 unique external prefixes.
| Registry Name | Registry Metaprefix | External Prefix | Curate |
|---|---|---|---|
AberOWL
|
aberowl |
MESH
|
|
BARTOC
|
bartoc |
391
|
|
| BioContext | biocontext |
MESH
|
|
Biolink
|
biolink |
MESH
|
|
BioPortal
|
bioportal |
MESH
|
|
Cellosaurus
|
cellosaurus |
MeSH
|
|
EDAM
|
edam |
1177
|
|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.qnkw45
|
|
GO
|
go |
MeSH
|
|
HL7
|
hl7 |
2.16.840.1.113883.6.177
|
|
Integbio
|
integbio |
nbdc00132
|
|
Identifiers.org
|
miriam |
mesh
|
|
N2T
|
n2t |
mesh
|
|
Prefix Commons
|
prefixcommons |
mesh
|
|
| TogoID | togoid |
Mesh
|
|
Wikidata
|
wikidata |
P486
|
RDF Information
When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/$1
Providers
A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).
The local unique identifier C063233 is used to demonstrate the providers
available for Medical Subject Headings. A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.
Extra Providers
Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.
| Code | Name | URL |
|---|---|---|
bio2rdf |
Bio2RDF | http://bio2rdf.org/mesh:C063233 |
bioportal.purl |
BioPortal | http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/C063233 |
mesh.2008 |
Legacy 2008 MeSH URL | http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2008/MB_cgi?field=uid&term=C063233 |
mesh.json-ld |
Medical Subject Headings (JSON-LD) | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/C063233.json-ld |
mesh.n3 |
Medical Subject Headings (N3) | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/C063233.n3 |
mesh.ttl |
Medical Subject Headings (TTL) | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/C063233.ttl |