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The Review on the Traditional Medicine Concepts in the UMLS

  • The Journal Of Korean Medical Classics
  • Abbr : JKMC
  • 2010, 23(6), pp.15~26
  • Publisher : 대한한의학원전학회
  • Research Area : Medicine and Pharmacy > Korean Medicine

김진현 1 김철 1 Hyunchul Jang 2 전병욱 1 예상준 1 Kim Sang-Kyun 1 송미영 1

1한국한의학연구원 정보연구센터
2한국한의학연구원

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ABSTRACT

Objective This is a previous study for including traditional Korean medical terms into the UMLS(The Unified Medical Language System) and achieving the interoperability between various medical systems. Method First, the traditional medical terms were divided into 4 categories : basic theory, acupuncture, herb and formulae. And then, searching these terms through metathesaurus in UMLSKS(UMLS Knowledge Source Server), terminology information was investigated and analyzed. Results In the case of TM title, traditional Korean medicine was categorized as different semantic type from Traditional medicine, Traditional Chinese medicine and Kampo medicine. Acupuncture points were described only as abbreviation and herbs were conceptualized inconsistently, as some belonged to scientific name and some belonged to Chinese pronunciation. Formulaes are described as Chinese, Japanese and Korean pronunciations. Conclusions More research is needed on diagnosis/disease terms and semantic types for the unique concepts in traditional Korean medicine in order to including the international standard.

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