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

NLM Customer Service

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

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.

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 002804 is used to demonstrate the providers available for MedlinePlus Health Topics. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.