Controlled Medical Vocabularies

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CMV’s are tools that are used to arrange information in standard forms for reasons of gaining, encasing, changing, scouting, and analyzing data. CMV’s are databases of medical words or common phrases that are accessed to create an ease of use to scout the database for gaining the vocabulary in a medical dictionary through a simple search. Controlled medical vocabularies are essential to the medical field in today’s medicine because of their ease of use and quick access by medical staff. With the ability to simply search for a term by medical professionals there is a quickness associated to the treatment of patients. It is also a useful tool for doctors to read up on their past studies or to learn new terms. Terms that have just recently been

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