Medical terms Synonyms

Question

[Manu Madhavan]

I am doing a project in Biomedical Literature mining. I want to download all Pumbed article related a disease say diabetics. I am using a python API-metapub- for fetching pumbed articles, by providing keywords. Is there any document/database/tool available to get the synonyms of given medical term, so that I can make my search more meaningful?

[natasha.sernova]

See this article.

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology

Olivier Bodenreider

https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/32/suppl_1/D267/2505235

It's from 2004, but a lot of people have cited it - there should be links to some updates if needed.

See their website : https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/

I seached it with your example - I received many thousands of different links.

https://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?query=diabetes&v%3Aproject=nlm-main-website

https://medlineplus.gov/searchtips.html - it helps to seach

There are also FAQ-columns, this information is also useful.

[Manu Madhavan]

Thanks for the reply and sharing useful links.

Answer 1

[Denise CS]

You can try the Open Targets LINK, which is a literature knowledge graph of biomedical terms extracted from PubMed using NLP. Check this blog post for details on the API, web interface and pipeline that runs the NLP analysis.