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What is SNOMED CT?

April 26, 2017CT snomed

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What is SNOMED CT?

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SNOMED CT is considered to be the most comprehensive multilingual health terminology in the world. From abscess to zygote, SNOMED CT includes more than 311,000 unique concepts. The concepts are organized in hierarchies, from the general to the specific. This allows very detailed (granular) clinical data to be recorded and later accessed or aggregated at a more general level. Concept descriptions are the terms or names assigned to a SNOMED CT concept. There are almost 800,000 descriptions in SNOMED CT, including synonyms that can be used to refer to a concept. In addition, there are approximately 1,360,000 links or semantic relationships between the SNOMED CT concepts. These relationships provide formal definitions and other characteristics of the concept. One type of link is the IS_A relationship. This is used to define a concepts position within a hierarchy, e.g. Diabetes Mellitus IS_A disorder of glucose regulation. SNOMED CT concepts are organized in hierarchies with multiple levels