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Subject Headings

Terms or expressions which provide the major means of access by subject to the bibliographic unit.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Terms or expressions which provide the major means of access by subject to the bibliographic unit.

MeSH Record

Classification

Broader headings

Narrower headings

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Heading, Subject
  • Headings, Subject
  • Subject Heading
  • Descriptors
  • Descriptor

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Indexing Annotation

VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED is also available

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. L01w.462w.750.245w.945w.700w

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Subject Headings. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013358. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013358
  2. Subject Headings. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_term
  3. Subject Headings. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1128340