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.

Prefix

umls

Alternative Prefixes

UMLS UMLS_CUI umls.cui UMLS CUI

License

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/release/license_agreement.html

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier should match this regular expression:
^C\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

C2584994   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier should match this regular expression:
^umls:C\d+$

Example CURIE

umls:C2584994

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Provided By

sider.effect

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier C2584994 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifier. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.