Template:MeSH/doc

Notes on use

The MeSH templates helps markup links to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/, the United States National Library of Medicine (part of National Institutes of Health).

This template should be used within a ref tag when using the scope note field of the MeSH term to define the term at the start of an article.

Example: <ref>{{MeSH|Diabetes insipidus}}</ref>

Parameters

1. REQUIRED - the MeSH term. This is obtained by searching http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html. A search plugin for FireFox, Internet Explorer 7+, and other browsers that use the OpenSearch standard is available at http://medinformatics.uthscsa.edu/searchplugins/.

Examples

Example from the article Diabetes insipidus:

Markup:  {{MeSH|Diabetes insipidus}}
Result: Anonymous (2024), Diabetes insipidus (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

MeSH URLs

This template configures the url for: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2008/MB_cgi?term=<<<MeSH term or entry term>>>