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Medical Subject Headings – MESH® Thesaurus

Lea Škorić orcid.org/0000-0002-1545-5791

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is the United States of America National Library of Medicine controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It is used for subject cataloging, indexing and searching biomedical literature. It consists of sets of descriptors arranged in both alphabetic and hierarchical structures. There are 26.142 descriptors, over 177.000 entry terms, and more than 199.000 Supplementary Concept Records in MeSH 2011. Due to its exquisite quality, elaborate structure and detailed approach, it is used worldwide and translated into many languages. The fact that it has been available for free in the electronic machine-readable form since 1997 has also contributed to its popularity. It was created by both health and information sciences experts who continually revise and update the MeSH vocabulary, so it evolves together with the growth and development of biomedicine. Croatian medical libraries use MeSH in their everyday practice and contribute to its translations. In this article, commemorating fifty years of MeSH and forty years of its use in Croatia, we present the outline of MeSH history, structure, and practice.

Ključne riječi

Medical Subject Headings; Thesaurus

Hrčak ID:

80043

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/80043

Datum izdavanja:

1.5.2012.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

Posjeta: 3.764 *