#terminology

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) as an API, powered by the U.S. National Library of Medicine's official MeSH RDF service. MeSH is the NLM's authoritative controlled vocabulary used to index the biomedical literature in PubMed — a curated thesaurus of diseases, anatomy, chemicals and drugs, organisms, psychiatry and psychology, analytical and diagnostic techniques, health care and more. Each concept is a "descriptor" with a stable unique id (e.g. D003920), a preferred name, a set of entry terms (synonyms and lay variants), and a list of allowable qualifiers (subheadings such as drug therapy, diagnosis or epidemiology). /v1/search?q=diabetes searches descriptors by their preferred name (match=contains, exact or startswith) and returns each descriptor's id and label. /v1/term?q=heart attack resolves a lay term or synonym to the MeSH descriptor(s) it belongs to, so colloquial language maps onto the controlled vocabulary (heart attack to Myocardial Infarction). /v1/descriptor?id=D003920 returns a descriptor's full record — its preferred name, all entry terms (synonyms), the allowable qualifiers and see-also cross-references, with a link to the MeSH browser. Ideal for biomedical natural-language processing and text mining, tagging and indexing literature, building clinical and research search tools, autocomplete over medical terminology, and mapping free text onto a standard ontology. Data from NLM MeSH (public domain). For drug-specific clinical nomenclature and interactions, see the RxNorm API.

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US drug terminology as an API, powered by the U.S. National Library of Medicine's RxNav / RxNorm service. Resolve any drug or medication name to its RxNorm concept identifier (RxCUI); read a concept's properties (preferred name, term type, synonym, UMLS id); find all the related drug products for a name grouped by term type (brand names, ingredients, clinical and branded drugs, dose forms); walk related concepts by term type; list the drug classes a medicine belongs to across ATC, VA, mechanism of action, physiologic effect and chemical structure; and run spelling-tolerant search that returns candidate RxCUIs with match scores for misspelled or partial names. The standardised vocabulary that underpins US electronic health records and e-prescribing. Ideal for EHR and pharmacy systems, medication reconciliation, clinical-decision-support and health apps, and drug-data normalisation pipelines. RxCUIs are numeric.

api.oanor.com/rxnorm-api

Biomedical ontologies as an API, powered by the EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS). Search across 280+ curated ontologies — diseases (MONDO), human phenotypes (HP), the Gene Ontology (GO), anatomy (UBERON), cell types (CL), chemistry (ChEBI), experimental factors (EFO), the NCI Thesaurus and many more — to find terms by name; browse the full ontology catalogue with versions and term counts; read any term for its definition, exact synonyms, OBO id, IRI and obsolete status; and walk the class hierarchy through a term's direct parents and children. Ideal for clinical-data harmonisation and coding, biomedical search and autocomplete, knowledge-graph enrichment, annotation and curation pipelines, and research and EHR applications that need standard vocabularies. OBO ids look like MONDO:0005148 or GO:0008150.

api.oanor.com/ontology-api