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As an example, the SNOMED CT concept

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t235991007 |Peritoneal eosinophilia (disorder)|
, may be identified as a type of blood disorder by some lexical (terming) coding tools and mapped to D72.8, Other specified disorders of white cells, in ICD-10. However, the concept
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t235991007 |Peritoneal eosinophila (disorder)|
has defining relationships
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t213293008 |is a (attribute)|
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t213293008 |Aseptic peritonitis(disorder)|
with
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t116676008 |associated morphology (attribute)|
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t23583003 |Inflammation(morphologic abnormality)|
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t363698007 |finding site (attribute)|
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t15425007 |Peritoneum(serous membrane) structure|
. From these relationships, the Mapping Specialist identifies that the SNOMED CT concept is an inflammation of the peritoneum and appropriately maps the concept to the ICD-10 semantic space K65.8, Other peritonitis.

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