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Meditation

"Meditation" 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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A state of consciousness in which the individual eliminates environmental stimuli from awareness so that the mind can focus on a single thing, producing a state of relaxation and relief from stress. A wide variety of techniques are used to clear the mind of stressful outside interferences. It includes meditation therapy. (Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary, 4th ed)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Meditation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Meditation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2013 and 2016
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