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The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a compendium of many controlled vocabularies in the biomedical sciences (created 1986). [1] It provides a mapping structure among these vocabularies and thus allows one to translate among the various terminology systems; it may also be viewed as a comprehensive thesaurus and ontology of biomedical concepts.
Betsy L. Humphreys (born April 26, 1947) is an American medical librarian and health informatician known for leading the cross-institutional efforts to establish biomedical terminology standards such as SNOMED CT and the Unified Medical Language System.
DeCS – Health Sciences Descriptors is a structured and trilingual thesaurus created by BIREME – Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information – in 1986 for indexing scientific journal articles, books, proceedings of congresses, technical reports and other types of materials, as well as for searching and recovering scientific information in LILACS, MEDLINE and other ...
RxNorm is US-specific terminology in medicine that contains all medications available on the US market. [1] It can also be used in personal health records applications. [citation needed] RxNorm is part of Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) terminology and is maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). [2]
Most items are mapped to concepts within the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). UMLS links enable the display of short text definitions or Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) scope notes for the majority of items on the database. The UMLS map also enables links to and from other medical classifications and terminologies e.g. ICD-9 and SNOMED.
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That means even when your body is at a normal temperature, the brain continues to turn the temperature up and down, causing hot flashes, explains Yves-Richard Dole, M.D., a board-certified ...
The NCI Metathesaurus is based on NLM's Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus supplemented with additional cancer-centric vocabulary. The public version of the NCI Metathesaurus currently contains all public domain vocabularies from the National Library of Medicine 's UMLS Metathesaurus , as well as a growing number of NCI-specific ...