The Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®) Metathesaurus (MTH) was developed and is maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). MTH contains concept names, attributes, relationships, and other data that were created by NLM to facilitate construction of the UMLS Metathesaurus.

Prefix

mth

Alternative Prefixes

umls.mth

Links

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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Metathesaurus Names should match this regular expression:
^U\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

U001388   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Metathesaurus Names should match this regular expression:
^mth:U\d+$

Example CURIE

mth:U001388

Contact

Missing Contact

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

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

Appears In (2)

MONDO umls

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 1 mapping to an external registry.

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 U001388 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Metathesaurus Names. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.