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DeCS 2004 — Conclusion
of the Conversion of Letters
Following the standard adopted by MeSH, the letters
of the terms (descriptors and synonyms) of the DeCS vocabulary were changed
to lower case (from the second letter on), in the three languages, including
also the SP and HP categories. Most changes were made globally. The most
representative ones are illustrated below:
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Normal cases:
Cancer Vaccines ’ Cancer
Vaccines
Pulmonary
Heart Disease ’ Pulmonary Heart Disease
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Organisms in
Latin (genus and species):
HOMO SAPIENS ’
Homo sapiens
Primula
officinalis ’
Primula officinalis
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Organisms with
acronyms/abbreviations and single letters:
MICE, INBRED AKR ’ Mice,
Inbred AKR
Rats, Inbred A
x C 9935 Irish ’ Rats,
Inbred A x C 9935
Irish
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Chemical terms with acronyms/abbreviations which
differ in one or more languages):
AIDS ANTIGENS ’ AIDS Antigens (English)
ANTÍGENOS DA AIDS ’ Antígenos da AIDS (português)
ANTIGENOS DEL SIDA ’
Antigenos del SIDA (espanhol)
ANTÍGENOS HIV ’ Antígenos HIV (português)
ANTIGENOS VIH ’Antígenos VIH (espanhol)
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Chemical terms which include names of
organisms:
Silent
Information Regulator Proteins,
Saccharomyces cerevisiae ’ Silent
Information Regulator Proteins,
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Others:
- Accronyms/abbreviations and others which
contain exceptions (Roman numerals, Greek letters, etc):
Platelet Glycoprotein GPIIb-IIIa Complex ’ Platelet Glycoprotein GPIIb-IIIa Complex
FaCtor
XIIIa ’ Factor
XIIIa
ATPase ’ ATPase
Adrenergic alpha-Agonists ’ Adrenergic alpha-Agonists
Oncogene Protein p75(gag-fos-fox) ’
Oncogene Protein p75(gag-fos-fox)
- Words equal to Accronyms, whose characters should
be lowered:
VISUAL AIDS ’ Visual Aids
- Articles, conjunctions and prepositions:
Africa South of the Sahara ’ Africa South of
the Sahara
AcademiEs AND InstitutEs ’
Academies and Institutes
- homeopathic terms which, although in Latim in the three languages, are not of animal nor plant origin (organisms), but chemical/mineral (substances):
CADMIUM OXYDATUM
’
Cadmium Oxydatum (Latin for Cadmium Oxide).
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