are there open-source (non-copyrighted) medical knowledge-bases?
Mayo Clinic, as one example, has an online guide to diseases and conditions curated by qualified medical editors.
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions
Clearly, the Mayo material is copyrighted and is not open source.
Is there any similar type of medical-related reference that is open source, though?
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Medline Plus, as suggested by user7947, is one of my favorite free, patient-oriented medical resources.
emedicine.medscape.com is a good source for free, physician-oriented medical resources. Some material requires registering with a free account. (Note that the regular medscape.com may have some stuff behind a paywall. I've had the most luck searching "emedicine diverticulosis" or whatever I'm interested in.)
For anatomy, there is foundational model of anatomy.
SNOMED CT is also a knowledge base. (but is it free only to member countries).
Also see ontologies are on bioportal website bioportal.bioontology.org/
US source Medline-Plus:
medlineplus.gov
UK source:
nhs.uk
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