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Drug Terminologies
- Terminologies support some reasoning
- about existence
- What drugs, with what ingredients, packaging exist?
- about abstractions, generalizations
- Drug classes and their members.
- "Clinical Drugs"
- FDA Listing, Multum, RxNorm
- Terminologies alone do not cover reasoning about purpose, effect, interactions etc.
- More complete knowledge bases are needed
- NDF-RT includes some pharmacological knowledge
- may-treat,
- mechanism-of-action,
- physiologic-effect,
- chemical-class
- some pharmacokinetics
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