Background

A Component is any item SNOMED CT component is a concept, description or relationship that conforms with the SNOMED CT logical model. All SNOMED CT components are identified by an SCTID.

such as Concept, Relationship, or Description. The partition-identifier can be used to distinguish the Component type. Furthermore, a Reference Set member is identified by a UUID rather than an SCTID.

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A SNOMED CT reference set member is a uniquely identified row of a reference set. All reference set members are identified by a UUID (rather than an SCTID).

Form

URIs for componentsURIs for Components, based on the corresponding SCTID, take the following form:

http://snomed.info/id/{sctid}

URIs for members of a Reference Set, based on the corresponding UUIDsUUID, take the following form:

http://snomed.info/id/{uuid}

For simplicity of presentation, this document refers to either of the above forms as a Component URI. component URI.

Examples

The following table shows some examples of URIs for components and reference set members.

Examples