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Anonymous, (2008) MeSH (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Contents 1 Notes on use 1.1 Parameters 1.2 Examples 2 MeSH URLs

Notes on use

The MeSH templates helps markup links to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (part of National Institutes of Health).

Parameters

1. OPTIONAL- the MeSH term.

• This is obtained by searching http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html. A search plugin for FireFox, Internet Explorer 7+, and other browsers that use the OpenSearch standard is available at http://medinformatics.uthscsa.edu/searchplugins/.
• If no MeSH term is specified, the page name is used.

Examples

This template may be used within a ref tag when using the scope note field of the MeSH term to define the term at the start of an article. If this is done, be sure that the page name is either a valid MeSH term or a MeSH entry term.

Example: <ref>{{MeSH|Diabetes insipidus}}</ref>

Example from the article Diabetes insipidus:

Markup:  {{MeSH|Diabetes insipidus}}
Result: Anonymous, (2008) Diabetes insipidus (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Example from the article Syncope:

Markup:  {{MeSH}}
Result: Anonymous, (2008) Syncope (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

MeSH URLs

This template configures the url for: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2008/MB_cgi?term=<<<MeSH term or entry term>>>