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MeSH
Medical Subject Headings
MeSH is the controlled vocabulary of the US National Library of Medicine, arranged in a hierarchy of descriptors used to index articles in MEDLINE and PubMed.
It is a vocabulary for literature and search rather than for coding patient records, and it is one of the sources integrated in the UMLS.
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