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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…
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World Food Safety Day
Focusing on human health and sustainable development, and aiming to inspire actions to prevent foodborne risks, June 7 is World…
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World Malaria Day
On April 21, the world will step up its fight against malaria through campaigns on: Descriptors related to the disease,…
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Subheadings: pathol, physiopathol & physiol
The DeCS tip for this post refers to the qualifiers pathology (PATHOL), physiopathology (PHYSIOPATHOL), and physiology (PHYSIOL), which are often…
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2025 edition update
Join the online launch of DeCS 2025 edition on DeCS/MeSH website on April 3 at 11:00 a.m. (GMT-3). The event…
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World Water Day
Since 1993, the United Nations has celebrated 22 March as World Water Day to raise awareness of the 2.2 billion…
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World Women’s Day
The United Nations (UN) officially declared March 8 as International Women’s Day, as an action aimed at combating gender discrimination…
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World Hearing Day
Hearing health is observed every year on March 3. In the WHO Region of the Americas, approximately 21.52% of the…
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MeSH Class 3 descriptors: “check tags”
Virtually every biomedical article will describe subjects of research (human or animal; mice or rats, etc). Clinical articles will describe…
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Omics sciences
When navigating the hierarchy under the descriptor Genomics, one finds a set of descriptors that have something in common: the…
