Preferred Label : NCI Thesaurus;
NCIt synonyms : NCIt; Thesaurus;
NCIt definition : The National Cancer Institute (NCI) reference terminology and ontology. NCI Thesaurus
(NCIt) provides controlled terminology for clinical care, translational and basic
research, public dissemination of information and associated administrative activities.
NCIt is updated monthly to support precise coding of data based on the most recent
developments in the cancer and biomedical research community. NCIt has rich textual
and formal logic descriptions of biomedical concepts, including full text definitions,
synonyms, a true is_a taxonomic structure, polyhierarchy, inferred partonomy, and
other features that make it suitable for supporting accurate human understanding and
complex computer processing. NCIt has been produced by NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services
(EVS) since 1997, and adopted since then for use by numerous federal agencies, standards
development and research organizations.;
Origin ID : 11301;
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