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Medical Abbreviation and Acronym Meta-Inventory

This repository contains the live version of the Medical Abbreviation and Acronym Meta-Inventory, a large-scale American English database of medical abbreviations and their possible senses.

Folder: metainventory

This folder contains the most recent version of the Medical Abbreviation and Acronym Meta-Inventory.

An auxiliary version containing additional data fields is available. Modified and retired records can also be found here.

Please refer to the internal README file for the data dictionary.

Folder: sources

This folder contains the current source inventories.

Please adhere to the stated terms and conditions associated with each source.

Please refer to the README.md file internal to the folder for the source metadata.

Folder: code

This folder contains all code and additional data sources used to create the Meta-Inventory.

Please refer to the README.md file internal to the folder for more information.

Acknowledgements

This project is sponsored by the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics and funded by the National Library of Medicine.

We thank the original data generators, researchers, and engineers who contributed to the source sense inventories, setting the necessary foundation for this and future work.