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MeSH Terms were used wherever possible:
MeSH Terms [MH] NLM's Medical Subject Headings controlled vocabulary of biomedical terms which is used to describe the subject of each journal article in MEDLINE. MeSH contains more than 19,000 terms and is updated annually to reflect changes in medicine and medical terminology. MeSH terms are arranged hierarchically by subject categories with more specific terms arranged beneath broader terms. PubMed allows you to view this hierarchy in the MeSH Browser.
Skilled subject analysts examine journal articles and assign to each the most specific MeSH terms applicable -- typically ten to twelve. Applying the MeSH
vocabulary ensures that articles are uniformly indexed by subject, whatever the author's words.