It's an electronic controlled vocabulary thesaurus which consists of sets of terms (named descriptors) on medical sciences in a hierarchical structure. It was created to be used for indexing documents, as also on searching and it's used on MEDLINE/PubMED, a relevant biomedical journals database. It also has a separated thesaurus called Supplementary Concept Records.
Originator(s): United States. National Institutes of Health. National Library of Medicine
Resource added in:
27/01/2009
Available languages:
English
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