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Encyclopedia > Unified Medical Language System

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is under development by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). It provides a metathesaurus which is built up of several classifications. The metathesaurus contains concepts and relationships between concepts and such can combine knowledge from different classifications and from other types of controlled vocabularies which are not classifications per se. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the worlds largest medical library. ...


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Medical classification systems are used for a variety of applications in medicine and medical informatics statistical analysis of diseases and therapeutic actions reimbursement e. ... The SPECIALIST lexicon is one of three UMLS Knowledge Sources under development by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part of the Unified Medical Language System project. ...

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Unified Medical Language System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1124 words)
System modifications can include changes to the construction of the databases, enhancements to how data is retrieved, and the overall structure and linkage of the data.
The purpose of the Metathesaurus is to provide a basis of context and inter-context relationships between these various coding systems and vocabularies to provide a common basis of information exchange between the variety of clinical databases and systems.
Kumar, Anand and Smith, Barry (2003) The Unified Medical Language System and the Gene Ontology: Some Critical Reflections, in: KI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2821), Berlin: Springer, 135–148.
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