MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it provides information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues using non-technical terms and language.

Prefix
medlineplus
Keywords
biomedical science disease health science medicine ontology
Links
Homepage
Contact
Jan Willis, NLM
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in MedlinePlus Health Topics should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
002804   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from MedlinePlus Health Topics should match this regular expression:
^medlineplus:\d+$

Example CURIE
medlineplus:002804
Metaregistry MedlinePlus Health Topics

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl MEDLINEPLUS
BioContext biocontext MEDLINEPLUS
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal MEDLINEPLUS
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.bf8dsb
HL7 HL7 External Code Systems logo hl7 2.16.840.1.113883.6.173
Integbio Integbio logo integbio nbdc00836
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam medlineplus
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t medlineplus
Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE medlineplus:002804 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
MedlinePlus Health Topics medlineplus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002804.htm
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/medlineplus:002804
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/medlineplus:002804
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/medlineplus:002804
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.

Code Name URL
medlineplus.fp MedLine Plus home page https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002804.htm