Dealing with the Issue of VOCABULARY - mapping your terms to somebody else's
UMLS : The Unified Medical Language Structure Thesaurus
- An electronic Rosetta Stone used in PubMed to map terms or combinations of terms to the most likely MeSH term(s) and MeSH subheadings.
- Helps one use the highly specific nomenclature of MeSH without having to know the nomenclature in the first place.