Preferred Label : unified medical language system;
MeSH definition : 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.;
MeSH synonym : UMLS;
CISMeF acronym : UMLS;
MeSH hyponym : metathesaurus;
MeSH annotation : CATALOGER: Use NAF entry;
Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.