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Abstract: Objective: The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) designed by NLM combines many well established authoritative medical informatics terminologies in one knowledge representation system. Such a resource is very valuable to the healthcare community and industry. However, the UMLS is very large and complex and poses serious comprehension problems for users and maintenance personnel. We present a representation to support the comprehension and navigation of the UMLS.