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SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) - Markdown
SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) is the world's most comprehensive multilingual clinical healthcare terminology, a systematically organized collection of medical terms for standardizing, capturing, storing, and exchanging clinical information in electronic health records. Originally developed by the College of American Pathologists in the 1960s, it was created in 1999 through the merger of SNOMED RT and the UK's NHS CTV3. Currently managed by SNOMED International, it contains over 350,000 active concepts with millions of relationships and has been translated into more than 20 languages. With its hierarchical structure of 19 top-level hierarchies, it contributes to standardization of clinical records, decision support, data analysis, and improved interoperability.
| code | slug | name | description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | clinical-finding | Clinical finding | Results of clinical observation, assessment or judgment. |
| 2 | procedure | Procedure | Activities performed in the provision of health care. |
| 3 | observable-entity | Observable entity | Questions or assessments that can produce answers or results. |
| 4 | body-structure | Body structure | Normal and abnormal anatomical structures. |
| 5 | organism | Organism | Organisms of significance in human and animal medicine. |
| 6 | substance | Substance | General substances, chemical constituents, body substances. |
| 7 | pharmaceutical-biologic-product | Pharmaceutical/biologic product | Medications and biological products. |
| 8 | specimen | Specimen | Materials collected for examination. |
| 9 | physical-object | Physical object | Medical devices, implants, and other physical objects. |
| 10 | physical-force | Physical force | Energy and forces. |
| 11 | event | Event | Incidents and situations that occur. |
| 12 | environment-geographical-location | Environment or geographical location | Locations, environments, and geographical places. |
| 13 | social-context | Social context | Social circumstances and contexts. |
| 14 | situation-with-explicit-context | Situation with explicit context | Concepts where clinical context is specified. |
| 15 | staging-and-scales | Staging and scales | Classification systems and assessment scales. |
| 16 | qualifier-value | Qualifier value | Modifying terms used to qualify other concepts. |
| 17 | record-artifact | Record artifact | Document types and record-related concepts. |
| 18 | special-concept | Special concept | Metadata and navigation concepts. |
| 19 | linkage-concept | Linkage concept | Concepts used for mapping to other coding systems. |