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
MESHC MESH_DESCRIPTOR_UI MSH2010_2010_02_22 MESH MESHD MSH MESHA MESHCS MESHPP MESH_SUPPLEMENTAL_RECORD_UI
Keywords
bioinformatics biomedical science classification data model data retrieval life science literature curation metascience ontology topics
License
CC0-1.0
Links
Homepage
Contact
Jan Willis, NLM
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Medical Subject Headings should match this regular expression:
^(C|D)\d{6,9}$

Example Local Unique Identifiers
C063233   Resolve
D000001   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Medical Subject Headings should match this regular expression:
^mesh:(C|D)\d{6,9}$

Example CURIEs
mesh:C063233
mesh:D000001
Publications
1963 Medical subject headings
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Provided By
ctd.chemical ctd.disease mesh.2012 mesh.2013
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 logo aberowl MESH
BARTOC Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications logo bartoc 391
BioContext biocontext MESH
Biolink Biolink Model Registry logo biolink MESH
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal MESH
Cellosaurus Cellosaurus Registry logo cellosaurus MeSH
EDAM EDAM Ontology logo edam 1177
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.qnkw45
GO Gene Ontology Registry logo go MeSH
HL7 HL7 External Code Systems logo hl7 2.16.840.1.113883.6.177
Integbio Integbio logo integbio nbdc00132
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam mesh
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t mesh
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons mesh
TogoID togoid Mesh
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo 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

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE mesh:C063233 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
Medical Subject Headings mesh https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=C063233
Medical Subject Headings (RDF) rdf http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/C063233
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/mesh:C063233
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/mesh:C063233
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/mesh:C063233
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.

Code Name URL
bio2rdf Bio2RDF http://bio2rdf.org/mesh:C063233