Mesh stands for Medical Subject Headings and is Pubmed's MEDLINE controlled vocabulary. Not all articles in Pubmed will contain MeSH terms.
TIP: To view the National Library of Medicine's MeSH tutorial, click HERE.
To look up if a MeSH term exists, choose "MeSH" from the search bar's drop down on the main page then type in your word or term. Click search.
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The below image shows MeSH within an article. If the article provides MeSH terms, you can view them below the abstract.
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