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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2018 Sep 12;87:12–20. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.09.008

TABLE III:

Selected medical words from three medical semantic categories (i.e., disorder, symptom, and drug) and the corresponding five most similar words induced by the word embeddings trained from different resources.

Semantic
Category
Target Word EHR MedLit GloVe Google News
diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular, hypertension, diabetics,
Disorder uncontrolled, nonalcoholic, obesity, hypertension,
cholesterolemia, obesity, arthritis, diabetic,
dyslipidemia, mellitus, cancer, diabetes_mellitus,
melitis polycystic alzheimer heart_disease
peptic ulcer disease scleroderma, gastritis, ulcers, ichen_planus,
duodenal, alcoholism, arthritis, Candida_infection,
crohn, rheumatic, diseases, vaginal_yeast_infections,
gastroduodenal, ischaemic, diabetes, oral_thrush,
diverticular nephropathy stomach dermopathy
colon cancer breast, breast, breast, breast,
ovarian, mcf, prostate, prostate,
prostate, cancers, cancers, tumor,
postmenopausally, tumor_suppressing, tumor, pre_cancerous_lesion,
caner downregulation liver cancerous_polyp
dyspnea palpitations, sweats, shortness, dyspnoea,
Symptom orthopnea, orthopnea, breathlessness, pruritus,
exertional, breathlessness, cyanosis, nasopharyngitis,
doe, hypotension, photophobia, symptom_severity,
dyspnoea rhonchi faintness rhinorrhea
sore throat scratchy, runny, shoulder, soreness,
thoat, rhinorrhea, stomach, bruised,
cough, myalgia, nose, inflammed,
runny, swab_fecal, chest, contusion,
thraot nose neck sore_triceps
low blood pressure readings, dose, because, splattering_tombstones,
pressue, cardio_ankle, result, Zapping_nerves_helps,
presssure, ncbav, high, pressue,
bptru, preload, enough, Marblehead_Swampscott_VNA,
systolically gr higher pill_Norvasc
Drug opioid opiate, opioids, analgesic, opioids,
benzodiazepine, nmda_receptor, opiate, opioid_analgesics,
opioids, affective_motivational, opioids, opioid_painkillers,
sedative, naloxone_precipitated, anti-inflammatory, antipsychotics,
polypharmacy hyperlocomotion analgesics tricyclic_antidepressants
aspirin ecotrin, chads, ibuprofen, dose_aspirin,
uncoated, vasc, tamoxifen, ibuprofen,
nonenteric, newer, pills, statins,
effient, cha, statins, statin,
onk angina medication calcium_supplements