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Glossary

Abstract

A brief summary or description of the essential content from the source document.

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Chemical Thesaurus

A controlled vocabulary of chemical and drug terms used to index documents for MEDLINE. Another name for the Chemical Thesaurus is Supplementary Concept Records. See also Chemical Thesaurus

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DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) is a system for permanently identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment.

Example: DOI: 10.1134/S1061920808010020

See http://www.doi.org for more information.

DOI® is a registered trademark of the International DOI Foundation.

A DOI number can be associated with an article, a book, a book chapter, a data study document, and other document types.

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Explode

Explode expands a search to include medical subject headings subordinate to a specified subject heading.

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Holdings

Items in a library collection. For example, a library's online catalog would show whether the source publication is held in the library's collection.

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ISSN

The International Standard Serial Number is a unique number that identifies the source publication. The format is four numbers, a hyphen (-), three numbers, and then a check character that may be a number or X. Example: 0002-9262

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Major Topic

Medical subject headings that describe the main point or topic of an article are designated as major topics. See also MeSH Major Topic field

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Map

Mapping matches a term that you know to one or more subject headings in the MeSH Thesaurus.

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Marked List

A list of records that you marked from either the Results page or the Full Record page. Once you add records to the Marked List, you can later print, save, e-mail, order, or export some or all of those records. You have the option to select records from the Total Records table to output or you can select records from a specific product database.

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MeSH

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is a controlled vocabulary of biomedical terms used for indexing documents in MEDLINE. MeSH was developed and is maintained by the National Library of Medicine, the producer of MEDLINE. See also MeSH Thesaurus

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Qualifier

Qualifiers, also known as subheadings, are controlled terms that qualify or add context to subject headings. Qualifiers are found in the MeSH Thesaurus along with subject headings.

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Previous Indexing

In the details about a MeSH heading, Previous Indexing refers to other subject headings that were used to represent the same concept in past years of MEDLINE.

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Search Aid

Search aids are tools that allow you to select predefined names, terms, or codes and automatically add them with the appropriate syntax to a search query. Search aids allow you to quickly and easily achieve consistent search results.

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Set Combination

A set combination consists of two or more set numbers that you can run as a unique search query. For example, #1 AND #3 combines the results of set 1 and set 3 to form a single query. Set numbers appear under the Set column in the Search History table.

You can also enter a single set number alone to refresh the results of a previous search. In this instance, you may also want to change the timespan, languages, document types, literature types, and Taxa Notes.

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Source Document

An article, patent, book, or other work represented by a record in the product database. May also be referred to as "source publication" or "source record".

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Subject Heading

A controlled term from the MeSH Thesaurus used to index articles in MEDLINE. See also MeSH Thesaurus