C5788988

UMLS CUI C5788988 is "calcium lactate anhydrous".

calcium lactate anhydrous (CUI C5788988) groups: 1 SNOMED CT concept, 1 RxNorm code.

calcium lactate anhydrous corresponds to SNOMED CT concept 1268976007.

The Unified Medical Language System is the NLM's meta-terminology that unifies SNOMED CT, ICD-10, ICD-11, RxNorm, LOINC, MeSH, and around 200 other source vocabularies under a single concept identifier (CUI). One UMLS CUI can group dozens of synonymous codes from different terminologies.

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