Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Table of Contents Yearb Med Inform 1993; 02(01): 41-51DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1637976 Review Article Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart The Unified Medical Language System D. A. B. Lindberg 1 National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD, USA , B. L. Humphreys 1 National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD, USA , A. T. McCray 1 National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD, USA › Author Affiliations Recommend Article Abstract Full Text PDF Download Key-Words Key-WordsUnified Medical Language System - UMLS - Semantic Network - National Library of Medicine - NLM - Telecommunication - Information Management - IAIMS References References 1 Lindberg DAB, Humphreys BL. Computer systems that understand medical meaning. In: Computerized Natural Medical Language Processing for Knowledge Representation Scherrer JR, Cote RA, Mandil SH. (eds). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers; 1989: 5-17. 2 Bunting A. 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