Medical Vocabulary - The Concept of Concepts

1/13/02


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Medical Vocabulary - The Concept of Concepts

Unified Medical Language System

UMLS Purpose

The Tower of Babel

UMLS Focus. Conceptual Connections

UMLS Knowledge Sources

UMLS Distribution

2001 UMLS Metathesaurus

UMLS Metathesaurus. Finely Granular Concepts

UMLS Metathesaurus. Example 1

UMLS Organization

UMLS Metathesaurus. Example 2

UMLS Metathesaurus. Example 2 (2)

Multiple Meanings

UMLS Source Vocabularies

Important Source Vocabularies

Structure of MeSH

Descriptors

Hierarchies

Qualifiers

Supplementals

Use of MESH

SnoMed

Newer Challenges

Description Logic

Neuroanatomy

Approach

Drug Naming

Drug Naming (2)

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

What Constitutes a Concept?

Problems in Meaning

Recommendations

Author: Stuart J. Nelson