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National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

An agency of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs pertaining to advancement of medical and related sciences. Major activities of this institute include the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information important to the progress of medicine and health, research in medical informatics and support for medical library development.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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An agency of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs pertaining to advancement of medical and related sciences. Major activities of this institute include the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information important to the progress of medicine and health, research in medical informatics and support for medical library development.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • National Library of Medicine
  • National Medical Library
  • United States National Library of Medicine

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

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

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Indexing Annotation

add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL or RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., INTRAMURAL; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry

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1982(1965)

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  2. J03.400w.596w.831w.937w.725w
  3. L01w.462w.625w.596w.719w.875w.500w
  4. N03w.540w.052.750w.490w
  5. N03w.540w.348w.500w.500.600w.650w.496w.742w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009317. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009317
  2. National Library of Medicine (U.S.). In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Library_of_Medicine
  3. National Library of Medicine (U.S.). In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q611833