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.
mesh
Local identifiers in Medical Subject Headings should match this
regular expression:
^(C|D)\d{6,9}$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Medical Subject Headings should match
this regular expression:
^mesh:(C|D)\d{6,9}$
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 | Curate |
---|---|---|---|
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
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miriam |
mesh
|
|
Name-to-Thing
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n2t |
mesh
|
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Prefix Commons | prefixcommons |
mesh
|
|
Wikidata Property
|
wikidata |
P486
|
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 |