search_descriptors

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Tool of Mesh

declared in 0.1.0

Search NLM MeSH descriptors by a disease/drug/concept term (e.g. "diabetes", "aspirin", "myocardial infarction"). Returns the matching MeSH descriptor IDs (Dxxxxxxx) — the controlled-vocabulary headings used to index PubMed. The core free-text-to-MeSH lookup. Keyless.

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "text"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "text": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A disease, drug, or biomedical concept term, e.g. \"diabetes\", \"aspirin\", \"myocardial infarction\"."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Max results (default 10, max 25)."
    },
    "match": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Match mode against descriptor labels: \"exact\", \"contains\", or \"startswith\". Default \"contains\"."
    }
  }
}

What this tool wraps· 1 endpoint

min confidence0.70 0.50

Data resourceNCBI E-utilities
NIH NCBI · scholarly-metadata
name mention0.60

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