n.relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature
MEDLARSstands forMedicalLiteratureAnalysisandRetrievalsystem, which was firstintroducedin 1964 and evolved into an online system in 1971 calledMEDLINE (MEDLARS online).
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