UCUM unit code
ID ucum_code
Pattern of unit_of_measureNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Case-sensitive code of a unit in the Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM), built from unit atoms, prefixes and operators, for example kg, m/s, Cel or mm[Hg]. HL7 FHIR and LOINC use it for clinical and laboratory results.
- Pattern of
- Unit of measurement
unit_of_measure - Categories
- All measurable values (percentage, amount and e.t.c)
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Wikidata
- P7825
- Quality
- 60/100 · missing: regexp, negative example, translation, detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| kg | kilogram |
| m/s | metre per second |
| Cel | degree Celsius |
| mm[Hg] | millimetre of mercury |
Sources
- doc: https://ucum.org/ucum
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Code_for_Units_of_Measure
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7825
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https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ucum_code - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
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data/datatypes/any/values/ucum_code.yamlon GitHub