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Electronic Mail

"Electronic Mail" 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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Messages between computer users via COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS. This feature duplicates most of the features of paper mail, such as forwarding, multiple copies, and attachments of images and other file types, but with a speed advantage. The term also refers to an individual message sent in this way.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Electronic Mail" by people in this website by year, and whether "Electronic Mail" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2014 and 2015 and 2017 and 2018 and 2020
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