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

Homepage Request Discussion

Contact

Missing Contact

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

Contributors

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

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

Appears In (2) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

MONDO umls

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 1 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 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 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.