A field in the Description and Relationship Release Files which contains a SNOMED CT identifier that represents the type of Description or Relationship represented.

• Description. typeId represents the type of Description. Description types include subtypes of 900000000000446008 | Description type (core metadata concept)| . These include 900000000000013009 | Synonym (core metadata concept)| and 900000000000003001 | Fully specified name (core metadata concept)| . There is no typeId value for " Preferred term " as the preferred term is the synonym marked as "Preferred" in the appropriate [see 4.2.1 Language Reference Sets ].
• Relationship. typeId represents the type of Relationship between the concept identified by sourceId and the concept identified by destinatonId. Relationship types are 116680003 | Is a (attribute)| and subtypes of 410662002 | Concept model attribute (attribute)| .

Note: Field name in the Description file and in the Relationship file .

Related Links

• 5.1.1 Defining Attributes by Hierarchy and Domain
• 4.1.3 Concept Enumerations for Description typeId
• Description
• Relationship