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Concept

The file conforms to the 4.2.1 Concept File Specification and contains data related to a set of

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tconcepts
.

Relationship

The file conforms to the 4.2.3 Relationship File Specification and contains

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trelationships
that represent the
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tdistribution normal form
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tinferred view
of a set of concept definitions.

sRefset

The file conform to the single string reference set format. This only applies to the OWL Expression Reference Set and followed by the content sub-element _OWLExpression which contains stated

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tconcept definitions
represented as
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tOWL axioms
and additional
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tOWL ontology
information.

Description

The file conforms to the 4.2.2 Description File Specification and contains at set of

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tdescriptions
with description types
Concept
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t900000000000013009 Synonym
and
Concept
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t900000000000003001 Fully specified name
.

Note that both these description types have a maximum

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tterm
length of 255 characters.

TextDefinition

The file conforms to the 4.2.2 Description File Specification and contains at set of

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tdescriptions
with description type .

Note: This description type has a maximum

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tterm
length of 4096 characters.

StatedRelationship

The file conforms to the 4.2.3 Relationship File Specification and contains

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trelationships
that represent the
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tstated view
of a set of concept definitions.

Note: It is likely this file will be phased out and replaced with a reference set containing a richer OWL representation of stated concept definition.

Identifier

The file conforms to the 4.2.4 Identifier File Specification.

Note: This file does not contain any data rows in the International Edition.

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RefsetThe file conforms to the 5.2.1 Simple Reference Set specification and contains the members of one or more simple reference sets.
<pattern>Refset

The file conforms to the 5.1.1 Basic Reference Set Member File Format and include one or more additional columns, The number and order of the columns and their basic data types are specified by the <pattern> which precedes Refset.

The <pattern> consists of a sequence of lowercase letters each of which represent an additional column with a datatype specified by the letter as listed below

Pattern letter


c

A SNOMED CT component identifier (

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tSCTID
) referring to a concept, description or relationship.

iA signed integer.
s

A UTF-8 text string.

Examples

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