appears_in: []
contact:
  email: olivier@nlm.nih.gov
  name: Olivier Bodenreider
  orcid: 0000-0003-4769-4217
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: The Unified Medical Language System is a repository of biomedical vocabularies.
  Vocabularies integrated in the UMLS Metathesaurus include the NCBI taxonomy, Gene
  Ontology, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), OMIM and the Digital Anatomist Symbolic
  Knowledge Base. UMLS concepts are not only inter-related, but may also be linked
  to external resources such as GenBank.
example: C2584994
example_extras: []
homepage: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls
keywords:
- biomedicine
license: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/license_agreement.html
logo: https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/uts/assets/images/umls_tree_sm.jpg
mappings:
  bartoc: '20052'
  biocontext: UMLS
  edam: '1181'
  hl7: 2.16.840.1.113883.6.86
  miriam: umls
  n2t: umls
  wikidata: P2892
  wikidata.entity: Q455338
name: Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier
namespace_in_lui: false
pattern: ^C\d+$
preferred_prefix: umls
prefix: umls
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkh061
  pmc: PMC308795
  pubmed: '14681409'
  title: 'The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology'
  year: 2004
synonyms:
- UMLS
- UMLS CUI
- UMLS_CUI
- umls.cui
uri_format: https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/uts/umls/concept/$1
