Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) English version, maintained by National Institute of Health in the US - MeSH Treeview, can be used to index the knowledge and journals of life sciences.
- CINAHL (16K entries)
- The thesaurus versions of Spanish, Portuguese and French maintained by Pan American Health Organization (WHO Americas) - DeCS Treeview
- PAHO (34K entries).
- Aside from the MeSH descriptors, DeCS also includes several categories of its unique descriptors.
Descriptors
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Qualifiers
Per DeCS as updated in March 2024, known as the subheadings to narrow down the descriptors.
Analysis
- blood
- cerebrospinal fluid
- isolation & purification
- urine
Anatomy and Histology
- blood supply
- cytology
- ultrastructure
- embryology
- abnormalities
- innervation
- pathology
Chemistry
- agonists
- analogs & derivatives
- antagonists & inhibitors
- chemical synthesis
Classification
Diagnosis
- diagnostic imaging
Drug Effects
Education
Ethics
Etiology
- chemically induced
- complications
- secondary
- congenital
- embryology
- genetics
- immunology
- microbiology
- virology
- parasitology
- transmission
History
Injuries
Instrumentation
Methods
Organization and Administration
- economics
- legislation & jurisprudence
- standards
- supply & distribution
- trends
Pathogenicity
Pharmacology
- administration & dosage
- adverse effects
- poisoning
- toxicity
- agonists
- antagonists & inhibitors
- pharmacokinetics
Physiology
- genetics
- growth & development
- immunology
- metabolism
- biosynthesis
- blood
- cerebrospinal fluid
- deficiency
- enzymology
- pharmacokinetics
- urine
- physiopathology
Policies
Psychology
Radiation Effects
Statistics and numerical data
- epidemiology
- ethnology
- mortality
- supply & distribution
Therapeutic use
- administration & dosage
- adverse effects
- poisoning
Therapy
- diet therapy
- drug therapy
- nursing
- prevention & control
- radiotherapy
- rehabilitation
- surgery
- transplantation
Veterinary