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

Bodenreider, Olivier

doi:10.1093/nar/gkh061

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

Published in Nucleic Acids Research • Dec 17, 2003

Authors:

Olivier Bodenreider

Abstract

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...

Subject

Unified Medical Language System

Biology

Terminology

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