Mesh
headings from Medline
object.Extractor for the Mesh
headings of a Medline
object.
Mesh(object)
instance of class Medline
List by Pubmed article. Each list contains a data frame with Heading
and Type
. The Heading
is a MeSH Term and Type
is either a Descriptor
or a Qualifier
of a Descriptor term. Qualifiers of a Descriptor immediately follow the Descriptor term in the data frame. When MeSH headings have not been included with a MEDLINE record, the list will contain NAs
(see details).
In Process and publisher-supplied records lack MeSH terms. See the MeSH home page https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html for additional information about MeSH. Note that more recent records may lack MeSH headings.