Major P, Kostrewski B J, Anderson J
Med Inform (Lond). 1978 Dec;3(4):269-81. doi: 10.3109/14639237809014187.
Three medical reference languages, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED), were compared through an analysis of their structures. They were found to differ in the degrees of complexity and specificity of meaning that they could convey. This variation in semantic power has been correlated with their different functions.
通过对医学主题词表（MeSH）、国际疾病分类（ICD）和医学系统命名法（SNOMED）这三种医学参考语言的结构分析，对它们进行了比较。结果发现，它们在能够传达的意义的复杂程度和特异性方面存在差异。这种语义能力的差异与它们不同的功能相关联。
