Orphan Disease

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Orphan disease

Eurovoc reference

c_cbdf29ef Orphan disease

Alternative Concepts

• Rare disease

Definition

A disease affecting a small patient population (defined in Europe as less than 1 in 2,000 citizens) for which it is not commercially viable to develop treatments. Source: © Eurordis. Available at: <a href=

Other Languages

• Spanish: Enfermedad rara
• French: Maladie orpheline
• German: Seltene Krankheit
• Italian: Malattia rara
• Portuguese: Doença orfã
• Polish: Choroba rzadka

Properties and Values of Orphan disease

• URI https://en.legalthesaurus.org/orphan-disease/
• skos:Concept: https://en.legalthesaurus.org/orphan-disease/

Preferred lexical labels

• skos:prefLabel: Orphan disease (en) (USE)
• Term in other languages: see above

Generic concepts

• skos:broader: See above (GT)
• skos:hasTopConcept: See above (Areas)

Specific concepts

• skos:narrower: See the specific concepts above (ST)

Related concepts

• skos:related: see the associative relationships above (RT)
• skos:related: related (other related concepts)

Alternative lexical labels

• skos:altLabel: see the alternative concepts above (UF)
• skos:altLabel: synonym (S)
• skos:altLabel: look up Orphan disease abbreviations and acronyms (A)

Documentation notes

• skos:scopeNote: this concept on Orphan disease defines the activities of Orphan disease (en)
• skos:editorialNote: Editorial Note on Orphan disease (EN)
• skos:notation: Notation on Orphan disease: see reference Eurovoc (N)
• skos:definition: Orphan disease definition:
• skos:example: example of Orphan disease usage:

Thematic indexing

• dct:subject: https://lawin.org/orphan-disease/
• Definitions: See the meaning(s) of Orphan disease
• Search the digital platform (S)

Other general information

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