Table 5

Terms provided by the curators not found in our term selection. The following terms are identified by the curators as candidates for a disease but they are assigned to a different semantic type in the UMLS than the set that we have selected

CUI

Term

Semantic Type

C0003862

Arthralgia

Sign or Symptom

C0011071

Sudden death

Finding / Pathologic Function

C0011991

Diarrhea

Sign or Sympton

C0018790

Cardiac arrest

Pathologic Function

C0019054

Haemolysis

Cell Function

C0026838

Spasticity

Sign or Sympton

C0040053

Thrombosis

Pathologic Function

C0085298

Sudden cardiac death

Pathologic Function

C0264202

Somatic dysfunction

Finding

C1257806

Chromosomal instability

Cell or Molecular Dysfunction

C1384666

Hearing impairment

Finding

Jimeno et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9(Suppl 3):S3   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-S3-S3