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<title>UMLS Quick Start Guide</title>
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<p class="usa-banner__header-text"> An official website of the United States government </p>
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<li class="usa-nav__submenu-item"> <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/org.html"><span>NLM by Organization</span></a> </li>
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<li class="usa-nav__submenu-item"> <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/newsandevents.html"><span>News, Events, and Updates</span></a> </li>
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<p>The UMLS, or Unified Medical Language System, is a set of files and software that brings together many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems.</p>
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<p>You can use the UMLS to enhance or develop applications, such as electronic health records, classification tools, dictionaries and language translators.</p>
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<p>One powerful use of the UMLS is linking health information, medical terms, drug names, and billing codes across different computer systems. Some examples of this are:</p>
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<p>The UMLS has three tools, which we call the Knowledge Sources:</p>
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<li><strong>Metathesaurus</strong>: Terms and codes from many vocabularies, including CPT®, ICD-10-CM, LOINC®, MeSH®, RxNorm, and SNOMED CT®</li>
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<li><strong>Semantic Network</strong>: Broad categories (semantic types) and their relationships (semantic relations)</li>
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<p>We use the Semantic Network and Lexical Tools to produce the Metathesaurus. Metathesaurus production involves:</p>
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<p>The UMLS Terminology Services (UTS) provides three ways to access the UMLS:</p>
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<p>You can search the data through UTS applications:</p>
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<li><strong>Metathesaurus Browser</strong> - Retrieve UMLS concept information, including CUIs, semantic types, and synonymous terms.</li>
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<p>To install the UMLS on your computer, download the files through the UTS. The MetamorphoSys tool, included with the downloaded files, allows you to customize the UMLS according to your needs. You can then load your customized data into your own database system, such as MySQL or Oracle, or you may browse your data using the MetamorphoSys RRF browser.</p>
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<p>You can use our application programming interfaces (APIs) to query the UMLS data within your own application.</p>
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