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Medical Subject Headings
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| Acronym | MESH |
| Visibility | Public |
| Description | Medical Subject Headings (MeSH);National Library of Medicine; 2011 |
| Status | Production |
| Format | UMLS |
| Contact | NLM Customer Service, custserv@nlm.nih.gov |
| Categories | Health |
| Groups | Unified Medical Language System |
| License Information | This ontology is made available via the UMLS. Users of all UMLS ontologies must abide by the terms of the UMLS license. |
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| 2024AA (Archived) | 05/06/2024 | 08/28/2024 | RDF/TTL |
| 2023AB (Archived) | 11/06/2023 | 01/31/2024 | RDF/TTL |
| 2023AA (Archived) | 04/01/2023 | 08/07/2023 | RDF/TTL |
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- Thesaurus Biomedical Francais/Anglais [French translation of MeSH]
- Thesaurus Biomedical Francais/Anglais (French translation of the Medical Subject Headings)
| Classes | 355,057 |
| Individuals | 0 |
| Properties | 37 |
| Maximum depth | 18 |
| Maximum number of children | 118 |
| Average number of children | 4 |
| Classes with a single child | 3,565 |
| Classes with more than 25 children | 171 |
| Classes with no definition | 324,173 |
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| Id | http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D001741
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D001741
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| Preferred Name | Black or African American |
| Definitions |
Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa, who identifies as having African ancestry.
A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/30/97-28653/revisions-to-the-standards-for-the classification-of-federal-data-on-race-and-ethnicity). In the United States it is used for classification of federal government data on race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity terms are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies.
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| Synonyms |
African American
American, African
Negro
American, Black
Black Americans
Negroes
Blacks
African-Americans
Afro Americans
Black American
Afro-Americans
Afro-American
African Americans
Afro American
African-American
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| Type | http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class |
All Properties
| definition | Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa, who identifies as having African ancestry. A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/30/97-28653/revisions-to-the-standards-for-the classification-of-federal-data-on-race-and-ethnicity). In the United States it is used for classification of federal government data on race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity terms are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies. |
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| altLabel |
African American
American, African
Negro
American, Black
Black Americans
Negroes
Blacks
African-Americans
Afro Americans
Black American
Afro-Americans
Afro-American
African Americans
Afro American
African-American
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| prefLabel | Black or African American
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| TH |
NLM (1991)
NLM (2019)
NLM (1992)
UNK (19XX)
NLM (2022)
NLM (2021)
BIOETHICS (1974)
OMB (2023)
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| notation | D001741
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| DX | 19760101
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| Machine permutation | 2023; see NEGROES 1963-1975, BLACKS 1976-2003, AFRICAN AMERICANS 2004-2022
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| MN |
M01.686.477.625.594.594
M01.270.500
M01.686.372.500
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| MMR | 20230426
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| AQL | CL ED EH GE HI LJ PX SN
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| HN | 2023(2004); for BLACKS use BLACK PEOPLE 2004-2022
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| Semantic type UMLS property | |
| DC | 1
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| MDA | 19750725
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| type | |
| tui | T098
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| cui |
C5441680
C0005680
C5671324
C0085756
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| AN | use only for the United States population groups. BLACK PEOPLE is also available
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| TERMUI |
T001005326
T000996802
T005069
T000942750
T001122368
T001113744
T005068
T000996096
T001005328
T005071
T005070
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