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The following table contains the definition of terms used within this document. Please refer to the SNOMED Glossary for additional definitions.
Term | Definition | ||||||
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| The set of rules that govern the way in which SNOMED CT expressions are represented as a plain text string. | ||||||
| A set of rules that determines the permitted sets of relationships between particular types of concepts. | ||||||
| The set of concepts which may be refined using a given attribute.
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| A structured combination of one or more concept identifiers used to express a clinical idea. | ||||||
Expression Constraint
| A computable rule that can be used to define a bounded set of clinical meanings. | ||||||
Machine Readable Concept Model (MRCM)
| A representation of the rules that comprise the SNOMED CT Concept Model in a form that can be processed by computer software and applied to validate content. | ||||||
| A representation of a clinical meaning using a combination of two or more concept identifiers. | ||||||
| A representation of a clinical meaning using a single concept identifier. | ||||||
| The set of concepts that are allowed as the value of an attribute.
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| A SNOMED CT file structure consisting of a set of references to SNOMED CT components. | ||||||
Substrate
| The SNOMED CT content over which an expression constraint is evaluated or a query is executed. |
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