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MEDLARS

MEDLARS

9.5
A computer database that stores and helps find medical research articles
  • proper noun
  • /ˈmɛdˌlɑrz/
  • Archaic
translation icon : MEDLARS
  • Many medical professionals rely on MEDLARS for comprehensive literature searches in their field.

Examples

  • The National Library of Medicine developed MEDLARS to help researchers access biomedical literature efficiently.

  • The National Library of Medicine's MEDLARS databases, for instance, can provide information reflecting what others have done.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Searchers use a special language, MEDLARS, to select articles according to year of publication, journal, authors, keywords, and so on.

    Academic text (1991)

  • MEDLARS offers an extensive database for retrieving references on various medical topics.

Synonyms

MEDLINE
vsMEDLARS
  • Specialized
2 5.5

An online database of medical research articles and summaries created by the United States National Library of Medicine

focuses on storing and retrieving references rather than offering abstracts
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System
vsMEDLARS
  • Archaic
6.6

A database from the US National Library of Medicine for finding information about medical research articles

is the shorter abbreviated form used for the same system

How Comprehensive

MEDLARS
  • Archaic
9.5
gradus
  • Archaic
9.9
thesaurus
20 3.9
phrase book
2 1.8

Surface Forms

MEDLARS main

Morphology

MEDLARS = M + E + D + L + A + R + S

MEDLARS is an initialism/acronym whose meaning ('Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System') cannot be derived from its individual letters by an average learner.

Etymology

MEDLARS is a short name made from the first letters of the phrase 'Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System', with MED meaning 'medical' and LARS meaning 'Literature Analysis and Retrieval System'. So, the name tells you it is a computer system for storing and finding medical articles.