SNOMED CT, the whole picture
Topic hubThe world's largest clinical terminology — and the easiest to bounce off. The secret: it's only three building blocks. A concept is a coded clinical idea, descriptions are its names, relationships are its links. Everything else is detail.
The mental model — three building blocks
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The digits carry no meaning — it's just a stable machine ID for one idea.
FSN Myocardial infarction (disorder)
SYN Heart attack · MI
IS-A Ischemic heart disease
SITE Myocardial structure
Anatomy of one concept
DESCRIPTIONS
WHERE IT SITS · IS-A
DEFINING ATTRIBUTES
Finding site →
Myocardial structure
Assoc. morphology →
Infarct
MAPS TO
ICD-10 · I21.9Pre- vs post-coordination
One code — or compose your own from parts:
71620000 |Fracture of femur| :
272741003 |Laterality| = 7771000 |Left|
ECL — query the graph in one line
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