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For example,

• • 211039006 |Abrasion , of skin of chest wall (disorder)|

While many medical definitions refer to abrasions as superficial injuries of the skin and subcutaneous structures, the term is also used for areas such as dentistry to define superficial excoriations of teeth, ophthalmology, and also can be used for other integumentary structures such as nails. The FSN should clearly identify which structure the concept refers to and where this structure is skin, this must be specified.

Rupture

Ruptures are modeled with an |Associated morphology (attribute)| of 125671007 |Rupture (morphologic abnormality)|. A disorder concept modeled with a Rupture (morphologic abnormality) will classify as a subtype of 417163006 |Traumatic or non-traumatic injury (disorder)|.

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