Vocabulary updates
User suggestions for DeCS vocabulary
User suggestions for DeCS terms are often analyzed for literary warrant and other criteria, such as avoiding expressions with more than one meaning, in order to produce a useful vocabulary for indexing and retrieving literature in the health sciences area. During the first half of 2024, suggestions for terms to be included as descriptors were […]
B Category news for 2024 edition
Some common names of living beings were replaced by their scientific latin binomial nomenclature. For example: The new term Venomous Snakes was added as a child term to Snakes, under which its more specific family descriptors Elapidae and Viperidae were located. Moreover, many latin snake names were added as entry terms.
Inclusive language
For DeCS 2024 edition, descriptors in Portuguese that had a scope note or that nominally contained terms with an ableist bias were reviewed. Additionally, some terms under this theme were inserted into DeCS exclusive categories as descriptors or as alternative terms into MeSH categories. As a result of the cooperation with NAI/UNIVASF: Some obsolete terms […]
Homeopathy Category Revision
The Homeopathy category had last been revised around ten years ago. Having the 2025 edition as a deadline, the highlight of 2024 edition concerning this category revision is the rearrangement of homeopathic remedy concepts, which are now structured according to their origin, as opposed to the previously alphabetically organization. Additionally, some descriptors that in past […]
