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PubMed: MeSH Terms

PubMed database tutorial.

Searching using MeSH Terms

Medical Subject Headings - or MeSH - is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed.

Review the interactive tutorial below for steps on how to use the MeSH Database.

Click the purple "Next" button to progress through the slides.