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The SNOMED CT Glossary provides consistent definitions for terms in used in SNOMED CT documentation, E-Learning presentations and related materials. In addition to terms that have specific meanings in relation to SNOMED CT, the glossary also includes more general words and phrases used in the healthcare, informatics and other related domains.
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Contents
Introduction
A
- ABNF
- active
- Affiliate
- alpha package
- alpha release
- alpha release package
- American National Standards Institute
- ancestor
- annotation
- ANSI
- API
- application programming interface
- attribute
- Augmented Backus-Naur Form
- author
- authoring
- authoritative concept
- automatic classification
- axiom
B
C
- candidate baseline
- canonical form
- cardinality
- CDS
- CDSS
- CEN
- CEN TC251
- CF expression
- check-digit
- child
- children
- CIS
- classifier
- classifiable form expression
- clinical decision support
- clinical decision support system
- clinical information system
- clinical situation
- Clinical Terms Version 3
- close to user form expression
- C-NPU
- code
- collaborative space
- Common Terminology Services 2
- complement
- component
- compositional grammar
- concept
- concept model
- Confluence
- conjunction
- constraint
- context
- context wrapper
- core file
- core table
- cross mapping
- CTS2
- CTUF expression
- CTV3
- current snapshot view
- current delta view
D
- DAG
- Data Analysis System
- Data Creation System
- data migration
- defined concept
- defining characteristic
- defining relationship
- delta release
- delta view
- derivative
- descendant
- description
- description logic
- destination concept
- destinationId
- dialect
- directed acyclic graph
- disjunction
- disjunctive
- distribution normal form
- DL
- DNF
- domain
- Draft Standard for Trial Use
- DSTU
- duplicate term
E
- ECL
- edition
- editor
- EHR
- electronic health record
- EN13606
- enabled application
- enabled implementation
- entire
- eponym
- eponymous term
- equivalence
- European Committee for Standardization
- explicit context
- expression
- extended edition
- extended versioned edition
- extension
- extension namespace identifier
- extensional subset definition
- extensionally defined subset
F
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
- FHIR
- field
- FMA
- focus concept
- focus module
- Foundational Model of Anatomy
- FSN
- full release
- full view
- fully specified name
G
H
- healthcare client
- healthcare encounter
- healthcare episode
- healthcare professional
- healthcare provider
- Health Level 7
- hierarchy
- hierarchy tag
- historical reference set
- HL7
- HRCM
- human readable concept model
I
- ICD
- identifier
- IFCC-IUPAC
- IHTSDO
- immutable
- in group cardinality
- inactive
- inferred view
- INN
- inpatient episode
- intellectual property
- intellectual property rights
- intensional subset definition
- intensionally defined subset
- International Classification of Diseases
- International Edition
- International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation
- International Nonproprietary Names
- International Organization for Standardization
- International Release
- intersection
- IP
- IPR
- is a
- ISO
- ISO TC215
J
K
L
M
- machine readable concept model
- managed content addition
- mapping
- MCA
- meaning binding
- Member
- Member Forum
- Member territory
- metadata
- migration
- model of meaning
- model of use
- modeler
- modeling
- module
- module dependency
- monohierarchical classification
- monohierarchy
- MRCM
- mutability
- mutable
N
- namespace concept
- namespaceId
- namespace identifier
- National Edition
- National Health Service
- National Library of Medicine
- National Release
- National Release Center
- natural language processing
- navigation
- necessary condition
- necessary normal form
- necessary normal form expression
- NHS
- NHS Clinical Terms Version 3
- NLM
- NLP
- NNF
- NNF expression
- Nomenclature, Properties and Units
- non-Member territory
- normal form
- normal form transformation
- NPU
O
P
- partitionid
- partition identifier
- phrase equivalent
- POC
- point of care
- polyhierarchical classification
- polyhierarchy
- postcoordinated
- postcoordinated expression
- postcoordination
- precoordinated
- precoordinated expression
- precoordination
- predicate migration
- preferred synonym
- preferred term
- primitive concept
- production package
- production release
- production release package
- proximal primitive supertype
- proximal primitive parent
Q
- qualifier
- qualifier value
- qualifying characteristic
- quality characteristic
- quality metric
- quality target
- query predicate
- query template
R
- range
- Read Code
- realm
- record service
- reference information model
- reference set
- reference terminology
- refinement
- refset
- relationship
- release
- Release Format 1
- Release Format 2
- retrospective delta view
- retrospective snapshot view
- RF1
- RF2
- role
- role group
- root concept
- root metadata concept
S
- SCG
- SCT
- SCTID
- semantic equivalence
- semantic interoperability
- semantic tag
- SEP
- situation with explicit context
- snapshot release
- snapshot view
- SNOMED
- SNOMED Clinical Terms
- SNOMED CT
- SNOMED CT Affiliate Edition
- SNOMED CT Affiliate License Agreement
- SNOMED CT annotation
- SNOMED CT application
- SNOMED CT author
- SNOMED CT authoring
- SNOMED CT browser
- SNOMED CT component
- SNOMED CT compositional grammar
- SNOMED CT concept
- SNOMED CT concept definition
- SNOMED CT concept identifier
- SNOMED CT concept model
- SNOMED CT core
- SNOMED CT core file
- SNOMED CT core table
- SNOMED CT derivative
- SNOMED CT description
- SNOMED CT distribution file
- SNOMED CT distribution format
- SNOMED CT edition
- SNOMED CT editor
- SNOMED CT enabled application
- SNOMED CT enabled implementation
- SNOMED CT expression
- SNOMED CT expression constraint
- SNOMED CT expression constraint template
- SNOMED CT expression template
- SNOMED CT extension
- SNOMED CT Identifier
- SNOMED CT implementation
- SNOMED CT International Edition
- SNOMED CT International extension
- SNOMED CT International Release
- SNOMED CT International release package
- SNOMED CT logical model
- SNOMED CT metadata
- SNOMED CT model component concept
- SNOMED CT modeler
- SNOMED CT modeling
- SNOMED CT module
- SNOMED CT National Edition
- SNOMED CT National Extension
- SNOMED CT National Release
- SNOMED CT query language
- SNOMED CT reference set
- SNOMED CT relationship
- SNOMED CT release
- SNOMED CT release file
- SNOMED CT release format
- SNOMED CT Release Format 1
- SNOMED CT Release Format 2
- SNOMED CT release package
- SNOMED CT template
- SNOMED CT template slot
- SNOMED CT terminology server
- SNOMED CT terminology services
- SNOMED CT version
- SNOMED CT versioned edition
- SNOMED International
- SNOMED RT
- source concept
- sourceId
- source language
- SQL
- stated form
- stated view
- statistical classification
- Structured Query Language
- structure-entire-part
- subject of care
- subject of record
- subset
- substrate
- subsume
- subsumption test
- subtype
- sufficient definition
- sufficiently defined concept
- sufficient set
- supertype
- synonym
T
- target code
- target language
- target scheme
- technology preview
- template
- template slot
- term
- TermInfo
- terminology binding
- terminology browser
- terminology server
- terminology service
- textual definition
- top level concept
- top level metadata concept
- transform
- transformation
- transitive closure
- translation
- TSP
U
- UI
- UK National Health Service
- UK NHS
- understandability, reproducibility and usefulness
- uniform resource identifier
- union
- universally unique identifier
- URI
- URU
- user interface
- UUID
V
W
X
Y
Z
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