MeSH descriptor ID
ID mesh_descriptor_id
DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Unique identifier of a descriptor (D and six or nine digits) or supplementary concept record (C and six or nine digits) in Medical Subject Headings, the US National Library of Medicine thesaurus used to index PubMed.
- Categories
- Medical/pharma identifiers, Scientific
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Bioregistry
mesh- Wikidata
- P486
- Quality
- 80/100 · missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[CD]\d{6}(?:\d{3})?$
Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| C004931 | DPPH |
| D008180 | systemic lupus erythematosus |
| D014583 | Uruguay |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Subject_Headings
- doc: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P486
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/mesh_descriptor_id - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/medical/mesh_descriptor_id.yamlon GitHub