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NCBI MeSH Medical Terminology Scraper

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NCBI MeSH Medical Terminology Scraper

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

FieldTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
searchTermstringMedical term, e.g. diabetes or myocardial infarction
maxResultsinteger50Max 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.