| PMI | pain management inventory; past medical illness; patient medication instruction; perioperative myoca... |
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| AACN | American Association of Colleges of Nursing; American Association of Critical-Care Nurses |
| AADE | American Association of Dental Editors; American Association of Dental Examiners |
| AAO | American Academy of Osteopathy; American Academy of Ophthalmology; American Academy of Optometry; Am... |
| AAPS | American Association of Plastic Surgeons; Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale; Association of Ame... |
| unified medical language system | A research and development program initiated by the national library of medicine to build an intelligent automated system that can understand biomedical concepts, words, and expressions and their interrelationships, and use this understanding to help users retrieve and organise information from a variety of machine-readable sources. The goal of the umls is to compensate for differences in the terminology of the disparate systems and for variations in user modes of expression. The umls project has produced four knowledge sources meant to be used by user interface programs. These are the metathesaurus, the semantic network, the information sources map, and the specialist lexicon. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| fees, medical | Amounts charged to the patient as payer for medical services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| foreign medical graduates | Physicians who hold degrees from medical schools in countries other than the ones in which they practice. (12 Dec 1998) |
| legislation, medical | Laws and regulations, pertaining to the field of medicine, proposed for enactment or enacted by a legislative body. (12 Dec 1998) |
| licensure, medical | The granting of a license to practice medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |