Medical Subject Headings

**Medical Subject Headings** atau disingkat (MeSH) adalah pengaturan pendaftaran kata kedalam sebuah daftar kata (atau sistem metadata) untuk penggunaan indekfikasi artikal-artikal jurnal dan buku dalam ilmu kesehatan. Dibuat dan diperbaiki oleh United States National Library of Medicine atau (NLM), ini digunakan oleh pusat data artikel database MEDLINE / PubMed dan juga kumpulan katalog dan buku dari NLM. MeSH dapat di browse dan diunduh secara bebas dari ketentuan internet. sejak 2007 versi cetak sudah tiada lagi.

## Katagori
Hiraki penulisan pada MeSH adalah:
* Anatomy [A]
**  --- body regions
**  --- musculoskeletal system
**  --- digestive system
**  --- respiratory system
**  --- urogenital system
**  --- endocrine system
**  --- cardiovascular system
**  --- nervous system
**  --- sense organs
**  --- biological tissues
**  --- cells
**  --- fluids and secretions
**  --- animal structures
**  --- stomatognathic system
**  --- hemic and immune systems
**  --- embryonic structures
**  --- integumentary system

* Organisms [B]
**  --- animals
**  --- algae
**  --- bacteria
**  --- viruses
**  --- fungi
**  --- plants
**  --- archaea
**  --- mesomycetozoea

* Diseases [C]
**  --- bacterial infections and mycoses
**  --- virus diseases
**  --- parasitic diseases
**  --- neoplasms
**  --- musculoskeletal diseases
**  --- digestive system diseases
**  --- stomatognathic diseases
**  --- respiratory tract diseases
**  --- otorhinolaryngologic diseases
**  --- nervous system diseases
**  --- eye diseases
**  --- urologic and male genital diseases
**  --- female genital diseases and pregnancy complications
**  --- cardiovascular diseases
**  --- hemic and lymphatic diseases
**  --- congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
**  --- skin and connective tissue diseases
**  --- nutritional and metabolic diseases
**  --- endocrine system diseases
**  --- immune system diseases
**  --- disorders of environmental origin
**  --- animal diseases
**  --- pathological conditions, signs and symptoms

* Chemicals and Drugs [D]
**  --- inorganic chemicals
**  --- organic chemicals
**  --- heterocyclic compounds
**  --- polycyclic compounds
**  --- macromolecular substances
**  --- hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists
**  --- enzymes and coenzymes
**  --- carbohydrates
**  --- lipids
**  --- amino acids, peptides, and proteins
**  --- nucleic acids, nucleotides, and nucleosides
**  --- complex mixtures
**  --- biological factors
**  --- biomedical and dental materials
**  --- pharmaceutical preparations
**  --- chemical actions and uses

* Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
**  --- diagnosis
**  --- therapeutics
**  --- anesthesia and analgesia
**  --- surgical procedures, operative
**  --- investigative techniques
**  --- dentistry
**  --- equipment and supplies

* Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
**  --- behavior and behavior mechanisms
**  --- psychological phenomena and processes
**  --- mental disorders
**  --- behavioral disciplines and activities

* Biological Sciences [G]
**  --- biological sciences
**  --- health occupations
**  --- environment and public health
**  --- biological phenomena, cell phenomena, and immunity
**  --- genetic processes
**  --- biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
**  --- physiological processes
**  --- reproductive and urinary physiology
**  --- circulatory and respiratory physiology
**  --- digestive, , and skin physiology
**  --- musculoskeletal, neural, and ocular physiology
**  --- chemical and pharmacologic phenomena
**  --- genetic phenomena
**  --- genetic structures

* Physical Sciences [H]
**  --- natural sciences

* Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
**  --- social sciences
**  --- education
**  --- human activities

* Technology and Food and Beverages [J]
**  --- technology, industry, and agriculture
**  --- food and beverages

* Humanities [K]
**  --- humanities

* Information Science [L]
**  --- information science

* Persons [M]
**  --- persons

* Health Care [N]
**  --- population characteristics
**  --- health care facilities, manpower, and services
**  --- health care economics and organizations
**  --- health services administration
**  --- health care quality, access, and evaluation

* Publication Characteristics [V]
**  --- publication components (publication type)
**  --- publication formats (publication type)
**  --- study characteristics (publication type)
**  --- support of research

* Geographic Locations [Z]
**  --- geographic locations

## Pranala luar
* Medical Subject Heading Home provided by National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
* MeSH database tutorials
* Browsing MeSH:
** Entrez
** MeSH Browser
** GoPubMed (above)
** MeSHine 
** Reference.MD
** SHARing Point 
* List of qualifiers - 2008