Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Basketball

A competitive team sport played on a rectangular court having a raised basket at each end.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

A competitive team sport played on a rectangular court having a raised basket at each end.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Basketballs
  • Netball
  • Netballs

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, injuries, legislation & jurisprudence, physiology, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

/inj: coord IM with specific inj (IM); /physiol permitted; Manual 30.15.1

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History Note

90(87); was see under SPORTS 1987-89

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Previous Indexing

  • Athletic Injuries (1968-1986)
  • Sports (1966-1986)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. I03.450.642w.845w.117w

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NLM Classification

QT 260.5.B3

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Basketball. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001490. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001490
  2. Basketball. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball
  3. Basketball. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5372