2012AB MeSH Source Information

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Attribute Name	Description	Count (MRSAT.RRF)
TERMUI	Term unique identifier	733657
TH	MeSH Thesaurus ID - identifies thesauri other than MeSH in which the MeSH heading or cross-reference is included.	639692
HM	MeSH Heading Mapped To - heading mapped to attribute in C-MeSH containing repeating (MH or MH/SH) elements (e.g. HM = PYRROLIDINONES, HM = *TARTRATES, HM = ESTRONE/* analogs & derivatives)	296319
RN	Registry Number - series of numbers and hyphens (any leading zeros in an RN are dropped) or a series of numbers and periods, preceded by EC	256473
MDA	MeSH date of entry YYYYMMDD - date the term was added to the MeSH file, which is prior to the date the term became available for indexing and searching MEDLARS citations. Terms that have been part of MeSH for many years may have no value in this element.	236262
SRC	MeSH Literature source of chemical name - a citation to an article in a journal indexed for MEDLINE in which the chemical has been identified. (Note: Not to be confused with source abbreviation of SRC)	213761
FR	MeSH Frequency	209326
SC	MeSH Supplemental record class.	209326
SOS	Scope Statement	178741
MMR	MeSH revision date YYYYMMDD - date of the last major revision to the term's MeSH record.	159382
MN	MeSH hierarchical number for the concept in the MeSH tree structures. This number also appears in the HCD subelement of the REL and CXT elements.	55059
PI	MeSH heading or heading/subheading combination(s) followed by a date range in parentheses (YYYY).	49062
II	MeSH Indexing Information - for MeSH chemical terms (Term Type=NM), MeSH headings that may be relevant to articles that are also assigned the NM term.	42149
DC	MeSH Descriptor class - type of MeSH term the concept name represents.	26853
AQL	MeSH Allowable Qualifier - list of allowable qualifier abbreviations for MeSH main headings (e.g. AA, CL, CS, DF, DU, IM, I,P ME, PK)	25854
RR	The Chemical Abstracts Registry numbers for salts, optical isomers, or isotope-labeled versions of the concept followed by the relationship of this RR to the RN (in parentheses.) Applies to chemicals only. These numbers can be used as links to information in a number of chemical and toxicological databases.	23601
HN	History Note - for MeSH history notes, the year when the current form of the MeSH term was established as a major and/or minor descriptor.	22877
PM	Public MeSH note - combines key information from the HN and PI elements in a format that is printed in the MeSH publications.	22427
DX	MeSH Date major descriptor established YYYYMMDD - first day of the Index Medicus publication month in which the descriptor (in any form) was available for searching as a major descriptor.	21637
AN	MeSH Annotation - an informative MeSH note written primarily for indexers or catalogers that may also be useful in explaining the use of a MeSH term to online searchers.	15571
LEXICAL_TAG		14837
PA	Pharmacologic Action of MeSH main headings (MH) for drugs and supplementary concept names (NM). The information in this element is also represented by an "isa" relationship between the MH or NM concept and the MeSH concept name for the class of drugs with a particular pharmacologic action.	10916
FX	MeSH MH Mapping - maps a MeSH MH to a 'See Related' MH.	7726
OL	MeSH Online Note - information helpful to online searchers of MEDLINE, especially when the history of a term or cross-reference has implications for online searching. This is a potential source of useful information for rules for search interface programs.	3241
EC	Specifies the MeSH main heading to be used instead of the Descriptor/Qualifier combination specified in the EC_OF attribute.	928
DQ	MeSH Date Qualifier Established YYYYMMDD - date the qualifier became available for indexing MEDLARS citations.	83
CX	MeSH Consider Also Note - other word roots or prefixes that should be consulted for concepts related to this MeSH concept, e.g., the value for "Heart" is "consider also terms at cardi- and myocardi-".	66

Notes

• Attributes included every discrete piece of information about a concept, an atom, or a relationship that is not part of the basic Metathesaurus concept structure or distributed in one of the relationship files.
• Attribute Names (ATN) are based on source documentation or NLMs understanding of the source.
• Sample attribute values (ATV) are provided for each ATN in the source.
• Sample data highlight examples of ATNs and Attribute Values (ATV) in MRSAT.RRF.
• See Metathesaurus Documentation for a complete list of attribute names.
• See Section 2.5 of the UMLS Reference Manual for more information on attributes in the UMLS Metathesaurus.

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