, Josef Ingenerf b

Abstract. There are hundreds of English-language biomedical vocabularies, but only a minor part has been translated into other languages. We performed a sur-vey of localized German content in biomedical vocabularies, based on the au-thors ' past experiences, web search, and analysis of the UMLS Metathesaurus. As a result we found German versions for fourteen medical terminologies in a strict sense. ICD 10 (International Classification of Diseases) for disease and OPS (Operationen- und Prozedurenschlüssel) for procedure encoding play a prominent role, as both are used in the German patient classification system. In-terestingly they exceed in content and coverage the international sources they had been derived from. German content is also available for ICD-O (oncology)