***cross-posted; feel free to repost***
Hi, everyone. If you're looking for examples of an incomplete entry term list, here's two. I tell my students that if their search term is not a MeSH term or in the entry terms list, then PubMed won't map to (find) their search term, and if they use the terms in the entry terms list for keyword searching, they need to remember the list may be incomplete and therefore they need to think of additional keywords to use. If you want an example of weird mapping results, it's here: http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0804C&L=MEDLIB-L&P=R2456
MeSH: Epistaxis
Nosebleeds is not listed as an entry term.
Entry Terms:
Nasal Bleeding
Bleeding, Nasal
Bleedings, Nasal
Nasal Bleedings
Nose Bleed
Nose Bleeds
Nosebleed
MeSH: Traffic Accidents
Car accident(s), vehicular accident(s), car crash(es), vehicular crash(es) are not listed as entry terms.
Entry Terms:
Traffic Accidents
Accident, Traffic
Traffic Accident
Take care,
Tanya
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