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PubMed

A bibliographic database that includes MEDLINE as its primary subset. It is produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. PubMed, which is searchable through NLM's Web site, also includes access to additional citations to selected life sciences journals not in MEDLINE, and links to other resources such as the full-text of articles at participating publishers' Web sites, NCBI's molecular biology databases, and PubMed Central.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

A bibliographic database that includes MEDLINE as its primary subset. It is produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. PubMed, which is searchable through NLM's Web site, also includes access to additional citations to selected life sciences journals not in MEDLINE, and links to other resources such as the full-text of articles at participating publishers' Web sites, NCBI's molecular biology databases, and PubMed Central.

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

CATALOGER: Use NAF entry

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History Note

2003

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Previous Indexing

  • MEDLINE (1999-2002)

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Tree Numbers

  1. L01w.313w.500w.750w.280w.750w
  2. L01w.313w.500w.750w.300w.188w.300w.650w
  3. L01w.313w.500w.750w.300w.742w.650w
  4. L01w.470w.750w.500w.650w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. PubMed. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D039781. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D039781
  2. PubMed. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed
  3. PubMed. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180686