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B06. What does this extract from a handbook tell us about Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine?

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)

SNOMED was designed to provide a comprehensive nomenclature of clinical medicine for the purpose of describing records of clinical care in human medicine. It is a multi-axial and hierarchical classification system. It is multiaxial in that any given clinical condition can be described through multiple axes such as topography (anatomy), morphology, organisms such as bacteria and viruses, chemicals such as drugs, function (signs and symptoms), occupation, diagnosis, procedure, physical agents or activities, social context, and syntactic linkages and qualifiers. SNOMED is hierarchical in that each of the axes has a hierarchical tree that proceeds from general terms to more specific ones. For example topography (anatomic) terms are first divided into major organs such as lung, heart, and then into the smaller components of each.

It is a multi-axial and hierarchical classification system.

It is a comprehensive nomenclature of trial medicines.

It is used to describe any clinical condition through the axis.