MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS

ANNOTATED ALPHABETIC LIST

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

The Annotated Alphabetic List is an alphabetic presentation of some portions of the National Library of Medicine ^(TM) (NLM ^(TM)) thesaurus, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). It is adapted to the needs of indexers, catalogers, and persons searching the NLM online databases and it is recommended for all MEDLINE® users as it contains information not available in the edition of MeSH designed for users of Index Medicus®.

Users should make the appropriate syntax changes for the system they are using. These may include one of the NLM's web-based retrieval systems: PubMed® for journal citations, LocatorPlus^(TM) for citations previously found through CATLINE®, AVLINE®, or SERLINE®, and NLM Gateway ^(TM) for journal citations and datafiles such as AIDSLINE® and AIDSTrials® as well as non-NLM retrieval systems.

PubMed, NLM Gateway, LocatorPlus, have help documentation and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) online. Additional information about MeSH, including a browser of MeSH that provides extensive data, is also available online.

New in 2003 MeSH:

• 1251* descriptors added representing concepts with no directly corresponding descriptors in 2002 MeSH (i.e., new concepts and records);

• 93 descriptors replaced with more up-to-date terminology;

• 20 descriptors deleted;

• 1727 see references (print entry terms) added.

• 1 qualifier

*Nanotechnology was introduced in January 2002 into 2002 MeSH and is included in this total.

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