SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine -- Clinical Terms), is a systematically organized computer processable collection of medical terminology covering most areas of clinical information such as diseases, findings, procedures, microorganisms, pharmaceuticals, etc.

Prefix

snomedct

Alternative Prefixes

SNOMEDCTCT SNOMECT SNOMEDCT_US_2019_03_01 SCTID_2010_1_31 SNOMEDCT_US_2023_10_01 SNOMEDCT SCTID SNOMEDCT_US_2021_07_31 SNOMEDCT_2020_03_01 SNOWMEDCT_US_2018_03_01 SNOMEDCT_US_2015_03_01 SNOMEDCT_US_2020_03_01 SNOMEDCT_US_2022_12_31 SNOMED_CT_US_2018_03_01 SNOMEDCT_US_2023_09_01 SNOMEDCT_US_2023_11_01 SNOMEDCT_2010_1_31 SNOMEDCT_2005_07_31 SNOWMEDCT SNOMEDCT_US_2018_03_01 SNOMEDCT_US_2019_09_01 SNOMEDCT_US_2021_03_01 SNOMEDCTCT_2018_03_01 SNOMEDCT_US_2022_07_31 SNOMEDCT_US_2023_03_01 SNOMEDCT_US_2016_03_01 SNOWMEDCT_US SNOMEDCT_US_2022_09_01 SNOMEDCTCT_2019_03_01 SNOMEDCT_US_2023_02_28 SNOMEDCT_US_2020_09_01 SNOMED_CT SNOMEDCT_US_2021_09_01 SNOMED SNOMEDCT_US_2018_09_01 SNOMEDCT_US

Keywords

biomedical science health science medicine ontology preclinical studies

Version

2020-01-31

License

https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/uts/assets/LicenseAgreement.pdf

Links

Homepage OWL

Contact

NLM Customer Service

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in SNOMED CT (International Edition) should match this regular expression:
^(\w+)?\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

284196006   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from SNOMED CT (International Edition) should match this regular expression:
^snomedct:(\w+)?\d+$

Example CURIE

snomedct:284196006

Publications

2006 Standardized nursing language in the systematized nomenclature of medicine clinical terms: A cross-mapping validation method

Contributors

• contributor Nicolas Matentzoglu   0000-0002-7356-1779   matentzn

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

FHIR External Terminologies

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 11 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://snomed.info/id/$1

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 284196006 is used to demonstrate the providers available for SNOMED CT (International Edition). A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.