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

MSH2010_2010_02_22 MESH MESHPP MSH MESHD MESH_SUPPLEMENTAL_RECORD_UI MESHCS MESH_DESCRIPTOR_UI MESHA MESHC

License

CC0 1.0

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

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

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 13 mappings to external registries for mesh with 5 unique external prefixes.

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.