NCBI MeSH Medical Terminology Scraper
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$5.00 / 1,000 results
NCBI MeSH Medical Terminology Scraper
Search NCBI MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) via E-utilities. Returns canonical term, scope note definition, subheadings, year introduced and CAS registry number.
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Search NCBI MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) — the NLM's controlled medical vocabulary used to index all PubMed/MEDLINE publications. Returns canonical term, scope note definition, subheadings/qualifiers, year introduced and CAS registry number. No API key required.
Features
- NCBI E-utilities esearch + esummary pipeline for db=mesh
- Returns all ~30,000 MeSH descriptors and supplementary concepts
- Scope notes: official NLM definitions in plain English
- Subheadings: allowed qualifiers (e.g. drug therapy, genetics, epidemiology)
- Year introduced: when the term was added to MeSH
- CAS registry number for chemical/drug terms
Input
| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
searchTerm | string | ✅ | — | Medical term, e.g. diabetes or myocardial infarction |
maxResults | integer | 50 | Max terms (1–5,000) |
Output
{"uid": "68003920","term": "Diabetes Mellitus","scopeNote": "A heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by HYPERGLYCEMIA and GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE.","yearIntroduced": "1963","registryNumber": "","subheadings": ["blood", "diagnosis", "drug therapy", "epidemiology", "genetics", "therapy"],"url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/68003920"}
Use Cases
1. PubMed Search Optimization
A systematic review team uses this actor to expand their search strategy — retrieving all MeSH terms related to heart failure including subheadings, then using them to build comprehensive PubMed queries with proper MeSH tagging.
2. Clinical Coding Vocabulary
A hospital IT team building a clinical decision support system extracts all MeSH terms for a disease category to create an internal mapping table — linking free-text diagnoses to standardized MeSH identifiers for analytics.
3. Medical Knowledge Graph
An AI company building a medical knowledge graph extracts MeSH terms with their scope notes as node definitions — using the parent term relationships for edge creation in a disease ontology graph.
Data Source
NCBI MeSH via E-utilities — NLM/NIH, no API key required. MeSH is updated annually with ~500 new terms per year.
Pricing
Pay-per-result. 100 terms ≈ $0.50.