The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology

The Unified Medical Language System (http://umlsks.nlm.nih.gov) is a repository of biomedical vocabularies developed by the US National Library of Medicine. The UMLS integrates over 2 million names for some 900 000 concepts from more than 60 families of biomedical vocabularies, as well as 12 million...

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Published in:Nucleic acids research 2004-01, Vol.32 (suppl-1), p.D267-D270
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Neurofibromatosis 2 - genetics
Neurofibromatosis 2 - metabolism
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Unified Medical Language System
United States
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Computational Biology
Databases, Factual
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Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval
Internet
Licensure
Molecular Biology
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Neurofibromatosis 2 - genetics
Neurofibromatosis 2 - metabolism
Software
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Terminology as Topic
Unified Medical Language System
United States
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