the main controlled vocabulary used in the U.S. National Library of Medicine databases, including MEDLINE. MeSH is highly structured and lends itself to very powerful search techniques.
Formal and consistent vocabulary words used to describe the subject of a medical work. MeSH is provided by the National Library of Medicine for medical libraries.
A classification system developed and used at the National Library of Medicine and adopted by most health sciences libraries. The subjects are assigned specific letters and numbers for specific subjects. These subjects and numbers are displayed on the online record for any item in the library. ( See the black book available at the Health Sciences Libraries. )
(MeSH) A controlled vocabulary used to index the medical literature, developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and applied in applications such as MEDLINE and PubMed.
The National Library of Medicine’s controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles for MEDLINE/PubMed. MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve indexed citations.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a huge controlled vocabulary (or metadata system) for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. Created and updated by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), it is used by the MEDLINE article database and by NLM's catalog of book holdings. MeSH can be browsed and downloaded free of charge on the Internet; a printed version is published once a year.