Document (#8877)

Editor

National Library of Medicine

Title

Medical Subject Headings : tree structures

Issue

1994.

Imprint

Bethesda, MD : NLM, Bibliographic Services Division

Year

1993

Pages

933 S

Series

PB94-100054/WLI

Abstract

All Medical Subject Headings currently in use by the NLM's indexers, catalogers and searchers are arranged in a hierarchical manner showing relationships between broader and narrower terms. Included are geographic descriptors as well as annotations preceding each subcategory in the hierarchy

Object

MeSH

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