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 MESHPP MESHCS MESHA MESHD MSH2010_2010_02_22 MESHC MSH MESH_SUPPLEMENTAL_RECORD_UI MESH_DESCRIPTOR_UI

Keywords

bioinformatics biomedical science classification life science metascience ontology topics

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage

Contact

NLM Customer Service

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

Provided By

ctd.chemical ctd.disease mesh.2012 mesh.2013

Has Parts (bfo:0000051 )

mesh.vocab

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 14 mappings to external registries for this resource with 6 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/$1

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE None:C063233 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.