# Medical Subject Headings

> controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences

**Wikidata**: [Q199897](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199897)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Subject_Headings)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/medical-subject-headings

## Summary

Medical Subject Headings is a thesaurus[1] that plays a role in organizing medical information. Established in 1960[2], it has been in use for several decades.As a thesaurus[1], Medical Subject Headings provides a controlled vocabulary for indexing and retrieving medical literature.Medical Subject Headings was established in 1960[2], marking the beginning of its application in the field of medicine.It continues to serve as a thesaurus[1] established in 1960[2].


## References

1. Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications
2. Virtual International Authority File
3. Library of Congress Name Authority File
4. [Preface - History of MeSH. United States National Library of Medicine](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/intro_preface.html#pref_hist)
5. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
6. Faceted Application of Subject Terminology
7. BabelNet
8. UMLS 2023
9. FactGrid