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MEDLINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does MEDLINE mean?
• MEDLINE (noun)
The noun MEDLINE has 1 sense:
1. the computer-based telephone system of the United States National Library of Medicine that provides rapid linkage to MEDLARS
Familiarity information: MEDLINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The computer-based telephone system of the United States National Library of Medicine that provides rapid linkage to MEDLARS
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("MEDLINE" is a kind of...):
phone system; telephone system (a communication system that transmits sound between distant points)
Context examples
It also contains copious links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources at NCBI and elsewhere.
(Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NCI Thesaurus)
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