Vocabulary, Controlled. Controlled Thesauri . Controlled Thesaurus . Thesauri . Controlled Vocabularies . Thesauri, Controlled . Thesaurus, Controlled . Vocabularies, Controlled . Controlled Vocabulary . Thesaurus . Thesauri . A specified list of terms with a fixed and unalterable meaning, and from which a selection is made when CATALOGING; ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; or searching BOOKS; JOURNALS AS TOPIC; and other documents. The control is intended to avoid the scattering of related subjects under different headings (SUBJECT HEADINGS). The list may be altered or extended only by the publisher or issuing agency. (From Harrod's Librarians' Glossary, 7th ed, p163) . 1.00
Unified Medical Language System. Metathesaurus . UMLS 18589 . A research and development program initiated by the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE to build knowledge sources for the purpose of aiding the development of systems that help health professionals retrieve and integrate biomedical information. The knowledge sources can be used to link disparate information systems to overcome retrieval problems caused by differences in terminology and the scattering of relevant information across many databases. The three knowledge sources are the Metathesaurus, the Semantic Network, and the Specialist Lexicon. . 0.70
Metabolic Diseases. Diseases, Metabolic . Disease, Metabolic . Metabolic Disease . Thesaurismoses . Thesaurismosis . Generic term for diseases caused by an abnormal metabolic process. It can be congenital due to inherited enzyme abnormality (METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS) or acquired due to disease of an endocrine organ or failure of a metabolically important organ such as the liver. (Stedman, 26th ed) . 0.64