Artifacts

"Artifacts" 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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Any visible result of a procedure which is caused by the procedure itself and not by the entity being analyzed. Common examples include histological structures introduced by tissue processing, radiographic images of structures that are not naturally present in living tissue, and products of chemical reactions that occur during analysis.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Artifacts" by people in this website by year, and whether "Artifacts" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 287 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 23 publications in 2005
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