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Unified Medical Language System

A research and development program initiated by the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE to build knowledge sources for the purpose of aiding the development of systems that help health professionals retrieve and integrate biomedical information. The knowledge sources can be used to link disparate information systems to overcome retrieval problems caused by differences in terminology and the scattering of relevant information across many databases. The three knowledge sources are the Metathesaurus, the Semantic Network, and the Specialist Lexicon.

Year introduced: 1992

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Tree Number(s): L01.462.750.245.945.800

MeSH Unique ID: D017432

Entry Terms:

  • UMLS
  • Metathesaurus

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