Medical Subject Headings Naming Authority

Acronym MESH
Description MeSH 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.
External Link http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MESH
Citation Coletti, MH et al. (2001) Medical subject headings used to search the biomedical literature. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 8:317-23.