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Commerce

"Commerce" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale, between different countries or between populations within the same country. It includes trade (the buying, selling, or exchanging of commodities, whether wholesale or retail) and business (the purchase and sale of goods to make a profit). (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, p411, p2005 & p283)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Commerce" by people in this website by year, and whether "Commerce" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 29 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2007
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