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slit lamp

medical device, microscope with a light source that can be projected into a linear beam
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slit lamp

Summary

slit lamp ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (150 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • slit lamp's image is recorded as Retina Group slit lamp (side view).jpg[2].
  • slit lamp's subclass of is recorded as medical device[3].
  • slit lamp's subclass of is recorded as ophthalmoscope[4].
  • slit lamp's Commons category is recorded as Slit lamps[5].
  • slit lamp's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D066167[6].
  • slit lamp's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 77603[7].
  • slit lamp's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0488tn[8].
  • slit lamp's MeSH tree code is recorded as E07.230.540.750[9].
  • slit lamp's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0183355[10].
  • slit lamp's Store medisinske leksikon ID is recorded as spaltelampe[11].
  • slit lamp's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778113962[12].
  • slit lamp's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2778113962[13].

Why It Matters

slit lamp ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (150 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . WikiUMLS: Aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18d ago · Caterina Sansone · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → medical device, ophthalmoscope
    Subclass of → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ [[Property:P508]]: 77603"
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