An expression that contains two or more concept identifiers to represent an idea.

Notes

• The concept identifiers in a  postcoordinated expression  relate to one another in ways that build more specific clinical ideas. The required meaning is expressed by postcoordinating several clinical ideas, each of which is represented by an identified  concept .

Example

• The concept  125605004 | fracture of bone|  can be refined using the attribute  363698007 | finding site| , and the body structure concept  71341001 | bone structure of femur|  to create the following postcoordinated expression:

  125605004 |fracture of bone| : 363698007 |finding site|  =  71341001 |bone structure of femur|

Alternatives

• Postcoordinated
• Postcoordination

Related Links

• Precoordinated and Postcoordinated Representations
• Precoordinated expression