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Automatic Term Mapping (continued)

 

How PubMed Searches the query head lice shampoo
Search for: If: Action:
head lice shampoo No match found. Removes term on the right to rerun Automatic Term Mapping process.
head lice Match found in MeSH Translation Table. Head lice will be searched as ("pediculus"[MeSH Terms] OR "pediculus"[All Fields] OR ("head"[All Fields] AND "lice"[All Fields]) OR "head lice"[All Fields])
shampoo No match found. Shampoo will be searched as shampoo [All Fields]

Summary

In summary, let's see how PubMed searches for the search query head lice shampoo.

PubMed will then combine the results (with AND) to produce a single search strategy:

(("pediculus"[MeSH Terms] OR "pediculus"[All Fields] OR ("head"[All Fields] AND "lice"[All Fields]) OR "head lice"[All Fields]) AND shampoo[All Fields]

 

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Last updated: 10 October 2008
First published: 20 March 2001
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