About MeSH Tree Tool - Svensk MeSH
MeSH Subject Headings is a controlled vocabulary thesaurus in English in the medical field that has been developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in USA. It contains the controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles in Medline and PubMed. The controlled vocabulary thesaurus is very extensive. It contains approximately 25,000 medical terms.
In the MeSH Tree Tool - Svensk MeSH approximately 24,000 of the English terms have been provided with Swedish translations. These translations have been performed by the staff of the University Library at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The MeSH Tree Tool - Svensk MeSH can be used as a tool to translate keywords from Swedish to English and from English into Swedish.
In addition to help with the translation of terms you are also provided with a longer or shorter explanation often both in English and Swedish.
If you search for the term 'demens' (dementia) you get the following explanations both in English and in Swedish:
Scope Note:
An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.
Förklaring:
Ett förvärvat, organiskt, mentalt sjukdomstillstånd med förlust av intellektuell förmåga i så svår grad att sociala och arbetslivsfunktioner störs. Funktionsstörningen är mångfaceterad och omfattar minnesförmåga, beteende, personlighet, omdöme, rymduppfattning, språk, abstraktionsförmåga och andra handlingsfunktioner. Den intellektuella försämringen är oftast progressiv och förskonar inledningsvis medvetandet.
/Anne-Marie Pettersson, Library Gräsvik
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