MEDLARS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does MEDLARS mean? 

• MEDLARS (noun)
  The noun MEDLARS has 1 sense:

1. relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature

  Familiarity information: MEDLARS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDLARS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System; MEDLARS

Instance hypernyms:

relational database (a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes)