Table 3 Top 10 semantic types of the environmental factors causing disease, as represented in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS).
From: The "etiome": identification and clustering of human disease etiological factors
Semantic Type of Environmental Factors | Count |
|---|---|
Disease or Syndrome | 1932 |
Pharmacologic Substance | 1250 |
Organic Chemical | 1076 |
Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure | 521 |
Neoplastic Process | 424 |
Amino Acid, Peptide, or Protein | 310 |
Biologically Active Substance | 274 |
Hazardous or Poisonous Substance | 251 |
Congenital Abnormality | 160 |
Injury or Poisoning | 150 |