Use case: find erroneous synonyms
In Norway, we suspected that «colon» was added as a synonym to some concepts expressing «large intestine». We identified some errors by using the ECL <64572001 |Disease| {{ D term = ("kolon" "colon"), language = no }} : 363698007 |Finding site| = 14742008 |Structure of large intestine|
Louise Bie from Denmark has also explored this function in Jira. The ECL < 138875005 |SNOMED CT-begreb| {{ term = wild: "*esophagus*", language=en }} {{term != wild: "*øsofagus*", language=da}} was used to detect errors in translation ("Esophagus" was not supposed to have the translation "øsofagus".
The ECL shows that wild card is possible to use in descriptions filters. However, the ECL might need quite some time to process and provide results.