Registry Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

The international standard for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents.

Prefix
loinc
Alternative Prefixes
LNC
Keywords
assay biomedical science diagnosis genetic disorder genetic polymorphism life science ontology phenotype preclinical studies
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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes should match this regular expression:
^(\d|\w)+-\d$

Example Local Unique Identifier
LL379-9   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes should match this regular expression:
^loinc:(\d|\w)+-\d$

Example CURIE
loinc:LL379-9
Publications
Contributors
Ontology

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

In Collection
FHIR External Terminologies
Metaregistry Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl LOINC
BARTOC Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications logo bartoc 1897
Biolink Biolink Model Registry logo biolink LOINC
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal LOINC
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.2mk2zb
HL7 HL7 External Code Systems logo hl7 2.16.840.1.113883.6.1
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P4338
RDF Information

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

http://loinc.org/rdf/$1

Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE loinc:LL379-9 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes loinc https://loinc.org/LL379-9
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (RDF) rdf http://loinc.org/rdf/LL379-9
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/loinc:LL379-9