MERITERM is a consortium devoted to joined research activities on medical terminologies and classification systems.
MERITERM stands for Medical Enduser and Reference Interface Terminology.
The project aims to identify an extensive but well delineated core set of meanings of words and phrases, commonly used in medical communication in a number of key languages. In addition, it aims to build an interface terminology for human/machine and human/human interaction (medical specialists, general practitioners, allied health professionals, pharmacists and patients). This core set will be linked to large existing linguistic resources, as available in many languages, and to a broad array of internation