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Using SNOMED CT with the UMLS - Medical Ontology Research

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The <strong>UMLS</strong> as a resource for terminology<br />

mapping<br />

• Over 100 source vocabularies in <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>UMLS</strong><br />

• content organized according to meaning<br />

(concept-based organization) – an<br />

interlingua between terminologies<br />

• rich network of relations between<br />

concepts – hierarchical relations and<br />

associative relations<br />

• various lexical resources and lexical tools

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