Exploring the Unexplored: Identifying Implicit and Indirect Descriptions of Biomedical Terminologies Based on Multifaceted Weighting Combinations
Table 5
Biomedical terms and their extracted descriptions by the proposed system.
Biomedical terms
Term definitions
Extracted term descriptions from biomedical abstracts
Corneal diseases
Diseases of the cornea
(i) Disorders of cornea
Dermatitis
Any inflammation of the skin
(i) Inflammation in skin (ii) Redness and cracking of skin (iii) Redness and swelling of skin (iv) Redness in skin (v) Redness of skin (vi) Redness or inflammation of mammalian skin
Griseofulvin
An antifungal antibiotic
(i) Antiviral antibiotics (ii) Antibiotics antifungal antiviral
Hydrofluoric acid
Hydrofluoric acid
(i) Acid is hydrochloric (ii) Acid which is hydrochloric
Magnesium chloride
Magnesium chloride
(i) mg chloride (ii) mg sodium chloride (iii) mg sodium chloride between about 28.5 mg and about 31.5 mg potassium chloride between about 30.0 and about 36.0 mg calcium chloride
Vanillic acid
A flavoring agent
(i) Flavor delivery agent
Chondrogenesis
The formation of cartilage
(i) Formation of cartilage and/or bone (ii) Formation of new bone
Nervous system diseases
Diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system
(i) Disorders of central and peripheral nervous system