Curiosities
Opposite concepts in the same descriptor record
The central core applied to most thesauri is the organization into concepts. Although they do not need to be strictly synonymous, terms within the same DeCS and MeSH vocabulary record may have related meanings, and some may even represent opposing aspects of a concept. Opposing and even contradictory aspects of a concept can be understood […]
Omics sciences
When navigating the hierarchy under the descriptor Genomics, one finds a set of descriptors that have something in common: the suffix -omics. The suffix -omics is often used to describe something complete and refers to a field of study in the biological sciences that deals with information from large-scale data. The first term to appear […]
UMLS
Since 2003, updates to the translations of MeSH Headings into Portuguese (MSHPOR) and Spanish (MSHSPA) have been sent annually to the Unified Medical Language System. It is important to note that terms that are exclusive to DeCS categories are not sent. The UMLS metathesaurus is a large biomedical thesaurus organized by concepts or meanings, which […]
Virus taxon names
Virus taxon names (species, genus, subfamily, family, and order names) have been formally approved using a defined process established by the ICTV and approved by the International Union of Microbiological Societies as specified in the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature (Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature). These names represent universal identifiers and as […]
