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The hierarchical nature of the information he's talking about really reminds me of the ontologies and terminologies that are used in healthcare to organize medical information. E.g. Ibuprofen 10mg Tab < Ibuprofen < NSAID < ... < Therapeutic Chemical.

This is a field that I'm only tertiary familiar with but it's a fascinating discipline trying to group, and manage all of the different categories of healthcare data. You can use the RxNav tool to look at the RxNorm terminology which is only 1 of many terminology systems.

https://mor.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/search?searchBy=String&searchT...



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