Registry Medical Subject Headings

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: MESHCS MSH MESHPP MESHD MESH_DESCRIPTOR_UI MESHA MSH2010_2010_02_22 MESHC MESH_SUPPLEMENTAL_RECORD_UI MESH
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.

Ontology

Provided By: ctd.chemical ctd.disease mesh.2012 mesh.2013

Metaregistry Medical Subject Headings

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

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`MESH`
Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications	`bartoc`	`391`
BioContext	`biocontext`	`MESH`
Biolink Model Registry	`biolink`	`MESH`
BioPortal Prefixes	`bioportal`	`MESH`
Cellosaurus Registry	`cellosaurus`	`MeSH`
EDAM Ontology	`edam`	`1177`
FAIRSharing	`fairsharing`	`FAIRsharing.qnkw45`
Gene Ontology Registry	`go`	`MeSH`
HL7 External Code Systems	`hl7`	`2.16.840.1.113883.6.177`
Identifiers.org	`miriam`	`mesh`
Name-to-Thing	`n2t`	`mesh`
Prefix Commons	`prefixcommons`	`mesh`
Wikidata Property	`wikidata`	`P486`

Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE mesh:C063233 is used to demonstrate the provides available for mesh. 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
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/mesh:C063233
Identifiers.org	`miriam`	https://identifiers.org/mesh:C063233
Name-to-Thing	`n2t`	https://n2t.net/mesh:C063233

Normalize prefixes. This can be any capitalization or punctuation variant of the synonyms listed below.

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.normalize_prefix("MESHCS")
'mesh'

Get all synonyms:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_synonyms("mesh")
{'MESHCS', 'MSH', 'MESHPP', 'MESHD', 'MESH_DESCRIPTOR_UI', 'MESHA', 'MSH2010_2010_02_22', 'MESHC', 'MESH_SUPPLEMENTAL_RECORD_UI', 'MESH'}

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("mesh")
'CC0-1.0'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("mesh")
'http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("mesh")
'NLM Customer Service'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("mesh")
'custserv@nlm.nih.gov'