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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2009 Mar 12;42(3):494–503. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.03.005

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Example of the addition of a pharmacy concept to the MED. Components added by fully automated processes are indicated in blue, interactive processes in red. The solid lines are hierarchical relationships, the dashed lines are semantic relationships to other MED concepts as indicated, and the clouded blue line is an automated hierarchical relationship that was broken by the interactive creation of intervening classes in red.