The Unified Medical Language System project has resulted in a set of three Knowledge Sources. Name and describe one of them.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers may vary:
1. UMLS Metathesaurus - provides a uniform, integrated distribution format from over 100 biomedical vocabularies and classifications, linking many different names for the same concepts
2. SPECIALIST Lexicon - syntactic information for many terms, component words, and English words, including verbs, that do not appear in the Metathesaurus
3. UMLS Semantic Network - contains information about the types or categories to which all Metathesaurus concepts have been assigned and the permissible relationships among these types
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