French MeSH Browser: a cross-language tool to access MEDLINE/PubMed.
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When searching the medical literature, health professionals and lay people strongly prefer to use their native language. Therefore, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) translations would be helpful to those who are not fluent in English to access scientific papers indexed in the MEDLINE bibliographic database. Furthermore, medical terminologies such as MeSH are challenging in any language. In this context, a French MeSH Browser was developed.
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- AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
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تاریخ انتشار 2007