Asynonymis awordhaving the same or nearly the samemeaningas another word in certaincontexts. The adjective form issynonymous.Synonymyis the relationship that exists between words with closely related meanings. The word comes from the Greek meaning "same name." Contrast with anantonym. A synonym ...
For identification of terms, they remove leading parentheses/brackets and filter out some semantic types. Additionally, the suppress certain terms that should not be matched on, i.e. only EC numbers or those that contain dosages. While the rules presented here do not specifically utilize the ...