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Descriptor English: Unified Medical Language System
Descriptor Spanish: Unified Medical Language System
Descriptor Unified Medical Language System
Scope note: Programa de investigación y desarrollo iniciado por la NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina) para construir fuentes de conocimiento con el fin de ayudar al desarrollo de sistemas que ayuden a los profesionales sanitarios a recuperar e integrar la información biomédica. Se pueden utilizar las fuentes de conocimiento para relacionar los distintos sistemas de información para poder superar los problemas de recuperación causados por las diferencias en terminología y la diseminación de información importante en las muchas bases de datos. Las tres fuentes de conocimiento son Metathesaurus, Semantic Network y Specialist Lexicon.
Descriptor Portuguese: Unified Medical Language System
Descriptor French: Unified medical language system (USA)
Entry term(s): Metathesaurus
UMLS
Tree number(s): L01.462.750.245.945.800
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017432
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
SD supply & distribution
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
Related: Subject Headings MeSH
Terminology as Topic MeSH
DeCS ID: 30465
Unique ID: D017432
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1993/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/03/27
Revision Date: 2015/06/05
Unified Medical Language System - Preferred
Concept UI M0026446
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Unified Medical Language System
Entry term(s) UMLS
Metathesaurus - Narrower
Concept UI M0026447
Preferred term Metathesaurus



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