Preferred Label : Unified Medical Language System;
NCIt synonyms : NLM UMLS; UMLS;
Définition CISMeF : 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. UMLS further provides facilities for natural language processing. It is
intended to be used mainly by developers of systems in medical informatics. UMLS
consists of Knowledge Sources (databases) and a set of software tools. The UMLS was
designed and is maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, is updated quarterly
and may be used for free.;
NCIt definition : The purpose of NLM's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is to facilitate the development
of computer systems that behave as if they understand the meaning of the language
of biomedicine and health. To that end, NLM produces and distributes the UMLS Knowledge
Sources and associated software tools for use in building or enhancing electronic
information systems that create, process, retrieve, integrate, and/or aggregate biomedical
and health data and information, as well as in informatics research. The UMLS Knowledge
Sources are multi-purpose and can be applied in systems that perform a range of functions
involving one or more types of information, e.g., patient records, scientific literature,
guidelines, public health data. The associated software tools assist developers in
customizing or using the UMLS Knowledge Sources. There are three UMLS Knowledge Sources:
the Metathesaurus, the Semantic Network, and the SPECIALIST lexicon.;
Origin ID : C43817;
UMLS CUI : C0085567;
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
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- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
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. UMLS further provides facilities for natural language processing. It is
intended to be used mainly by developers of systems in medical informatics. UMLS
consists of Knowledge Sources (databases) and a set of software tools. The UMLS was
designed and is maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, is updated quarterly
and may be used for free.
