Since the year 2000 a unique and powerful medical language tool has been developed in the Department of Medical Informatics at the University Hospital in Freiburg, Germany, in cooperation with the Language and Information Engineering Lab at Jena University, Germany, and the Paran´a Catholic University in Curitiba, Brasil.
The basic component of the system, a medical thesaurus that roughly consists of morphemes, led to the name MorphoSaurus (an acronym for Morpheme theSaurus). It provides a methodology for morphological analysis that accounts for (a) all three basic morphological processes, i.e., inflection, derivation, and composition, and (b) the combination of Greek, Latin, and a particular host language (in the current implementation English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and Italian).
