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New taxonomy NOMAD classifies disease names by origin and convention

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Researchers have developed a new meta-taxonomy called NOMAD to systematically classify disease names based on their origins and naming conventions. This taxonomy, comprising 9 top-level categories and 20 subcategories, was applied to over 22,000 index entries from the ICD-10-CM 2026 Alphabetical Index using a machine learning pipeline. The study found that anatomical categories were the most prevalent naming convention, followed by descriptive and pathophysiological labels, while eponymous and geographical names were less common than their cultural prominence might suggest. AI

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New taxonomy NOMAD classifies disease names by origin and convention

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Harry Hemingway ·

    Nomenclature Ontology for Medical And Disease names (NOMAD): taxonomy of types and origins of disease names

    The nomenclature of human disease has developed organically over the past centuries using Greek, Latin, and Arabic terminology and reflects the idiosyncrasies of different eras of medical discovery. Despite evident heterogeneity in naming practices, no systematic framework exists…

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