You were close! ... the following from Slee's Health Care Terms (see HCTonline.net) ============== Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):The annual authority list for the subject analysis of the biomedical literature in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The list is divided into two sections, an alphabetical list of the subjects along with their reference code numbers (MeSH numbers), and a tabular list, called a tree structure, in which the subjects are categorized and subdivided, often to several levels, according to the hierarchical arrangement of the classification. Any document in the literature will be classified under as many subjects as are logically necessary. www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
================ George Georgalis wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:31:07PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:MeSH stands for "Machine Subject Headings" -- its a standard toI'm prob wrong about that ;-) // George