Device making it possible to sort them rapidly a predetermined number of words of pharmaceutical, according to the value of a number of attributes specific to each word database. The maximum m of the attribute values are accepted and n data words having a same value of the attribute number. In a memory 28 present, m blocks, each of the n memory locations are reserved, and for each block, a counter 68 .. 86, Which address a - address to the inside of the block. The value of the attribute indicates the address of the block during the recording, for the recording, the state of the counter associated with this block is increased by one unit. A device which is determinant the priority 66 is made and, during the reading under the control of all the account statements of counting which indicate a number of words of clinical different from zero in the block in question, it sends these blocks, the one whose position is the most high. After the reading, the state of counter of the block is read is reduced to a unit. A fraction predetermined words of clinical having, for example, the lower values of attributes can, in this way, be detected.
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