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Musculoskeletal Diseases

"Musculoskeletal Diseases" 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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Diseases of the muscles and their associated ligaments and other connective tissue and of the bones and cartilage viewed collectively.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Musculoskeletal Diseases" by people in this website by year, and whether "Musculoskeletal Diseases" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 30 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2005 and 2008 and 2011 and 2014 and 2015
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