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 [CDM_SOURCE](CDM_SOURCE)
 
-All metadata about the data should be derived from the data themselves. However, the folowing contains a few key pieces of information that are convenient especially for software applications utilizing the CDM data.  
+All metadata about the data should be derived from the data themselves. However, the following contains a few key pieces of information that are convenient especially for software applications utilizing the CDM data.  
   
 Below provides and entity-relationship diagram highlighting the tables withing the Standardized Metadata portion of the OMOP Common Data Model: