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The caseSignificanceId attribute is a SCTID which specifies how the case of the characters in the term may be changed when using the term. The values of this attribute always refer to descendants of the concept

Examples

In below, a In

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A row from the description table in the 20170901 US Edition

Please note the following:

• The description id uses a namespace identifier allocated to the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This indicates that this description was created by the NLM.
• The description id uses a partition identifier of “11”. This indicates that the description was created in an extension.
• The moduleId indicates that this description is included in the

  Concept
  ShowParts term t 731000124108 |US National Library of Medicine maintained module|

  , which is the same module that the associated concept (from the previous example) is included in.
• The description id and the conceptId both use a namespace identifier owned by the NLM. This indicates that this description is associated with a concept created by the same extension producer.
• A languageCode of "en" indicates that this description uses the English language.
• The typeId indicates that this description is a

  Concept
  ShowParts term t 900000000000013009 |Synonym|

  .
• The term indicates that the string "Persistent asthma" is used to describe the concept

  Concept
  ShowParts id t 5281000124103 |Persistent asthma|

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• The caseSignificanceId indicates the term is

  Concept
  ShowParts term t 900000000000448009 |Entire term case insensitive|

  . This means that the term can be displayed using any alternative casing, such as "PERSISTENT ASTHMA" and "persistent asthma".

In 

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A row from the description table of the 20170401 French Canadian extension

Please note the following:

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