MeSH is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles for MEDLINE/PubMed. MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve information that may use different terminology for the same concepts.

  • Use the MeSH database to find Medical Subject Heading Terms and build a search strategy.

MeSH database tutorials:

  • Searching with the MeSH Database
  • Combining MeSH Terms
  • Applying Subheadings and other features of the MeSH Database