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Descriptor English: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Descriptor Spanish: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Descriptor National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Entry term(s) Biblioteca Nacional de Salud (EE UU)
Biblioteca Nacional de Salud (EE. UU.)
Biblioteca Nacional de Salud (EE.UU.)
Biblioteca Nacional de Salud (EEUU)
United States National Library of Medicine
Scope note: Agencia de los NATIONAL HEALTH INSTITUTES (Institutos Nacionales de Salud), que tiene como misión la planificación, promoción y administración global de programas relativos al fomento de la medicina y ciencias relacionadas. Entre las principales actividades de este instituto se encuentran la recopilación, difusión e intercambio de información importante para el progreso de la medicina y la salud, la investigación en el campo de la informática médica y el apoyo al desarrollo de las bibliotecas médicas.
Descriptor Portuguese: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Descriptor French: National library of medicine (USA)
Entry term(s): National Library of Medicine
National Medical Library
United States National Library of Medicine
Tree number(s): I01.409.418.750.600.650.496.490
J03.400.596.831.937.725
L01.462.625.596.719.875.500
N03.540.052.750.490
N03.540.348.500.500.600.650.496.742
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009317
Scope note: An agency of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs pertaining to advancement of medical and related sciences. Major activities of this institute include the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information important to the progress of medicine and health, research in medical informatics and support for medical library development.
Annotation: add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL or RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., INTRAMURAL; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
SD supply & distribution
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 1982; was UNITED STATES NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE 1966-1981
History Note: 1982(1965)
Entry Version: NLM
Related: Grateful Med MeSH
MEDLARS MeSH
Unified Medical Language System MeSH
DeCS ID: 9512
Unique ID: D009317
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/03/18
National Library of Medicine (U.S.) - Preferred
Concept UI M0014510
Scope note An agency of the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs pertaining to advancement of medical and related sciences. Major activities of this institute include the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information important to the progress of medicine and health, research in medical informatics and support for medical library development.
Preferred term National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Entry term(s) National Library of Medicine
National Medical Library
United States National Library of Medicine



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