The Description file holdsthat describe. Ais used to give meaning to aand provide well-understood and standard ways of referring to a.
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A is used to give meaning to a and provide well-understood and standard ways of referring to a | Caption label |
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Description file - Detailed Specification |
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| Start | filespec |
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Only one
record ...
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Field
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Data type
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Immutable
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Purpose
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id
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SCTID (data type)
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Y
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effectiveTime (field)
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Time (data type)
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N
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Specifies the inclusive date at which the component version's state became the then current valid state of the component
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active (field)
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Boolean (data type)
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N
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Specifies whether the's state wasorfrom the nominal release date specified by the effectiveTime (field) .
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moduleId (field)
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SCTID (data type)
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N
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Identifies theversion's module. Set to aof
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900000000000443000|Module| |
within the metadata....
conceptId
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SCTID (data type)
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Y
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Identifies theto which thisbelongs. Set to anof ain the
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138875005|SNOMED CT Concept| |
within the Concept file. Note that versions ofanddon't belong to each other. Which version of any givenis combined with which version of its owningdepends on the point in time at which they are accessed....
languageCode
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String (data type)
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Y
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Specifies theof thetext using the two character-639-1 code. Note that this specifies alevel only, not aor country code.
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typeId (field)
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SCTID (data type)
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Y
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Identifies whether theis an FSN,or othertype. This field is set to aof
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900000000000446008|Description type| |
in the Metadata....
term
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String (data type)
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N
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Theversion's text value, represented in UTF-8 encoding.
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caseSignificanceId (field)
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SCTID (data type)
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N
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Identifies theenumeration value that represents the case significance of thisversion. For example, the term may be completely case sensitive, case insensitive or initial letter case insensitive. This field will be set to aof
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900000000000447004|Case significance| |
within the metadata.Only onerecord with the same id field will be current at any point in time. The current record will be the one with the most recent effectiveTime
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| t | effectiveTime |
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before or equal to the point in time under consideration.
If thefield the
field of this record is false ('0'), then
theisat the is at that point in time. If
thefield the field is true ('1'), then
theis associated with theidentified the is associated with the identified by the conceptId field.
The conceptId field, the languageCode field and the typeId
field will not change between two rows with the same id, in other words they are immutable. Where a change is required to one of these fields, then the
current row will be de-activated component will be inactivated (by appending a row with the same id and
thefield the field set to false) and a
new row with another row will be added representing a new component with a new id
will be appended. Only limited changes may be made to the
' term ' field field, as defined by editorial rules.
Eachwill Each
will have at least
onewith a one | Gloss |
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| t | active description |
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with a typeId of
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| t | 900000000000013009|synonym| |
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and at least one | Gloss |
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| Space | true |
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| t | active description |
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with a of | Concept |
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| t | 900000000000003001 |Fully specified name| |
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.Where a
only has one | Gloss |
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| Space | true |
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| t | active description |
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with a of | Concept |
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| t | 900000000000003001 |Fully specified name| |
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across all codes within a release, then that can be taken as the | Gloss |
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| t | Fully Specified Name |
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for all and and need not be explicitly included in every associated with that release.The
| for a given languageCode (like "en"). Where aonly has onewith a typeId (field) of || for a givencode, then thatcan be taken as thefor thatand each of its, and need not therefore be explicitly included infor that. Where aonly has onewith a typeId (field) of || across allcodes within a release, then thatcan be taken as thefor alland, and need not therefore be explicitly included in anyin that release.The term (field) field will be restricted as follows:
- to an overall maximum length of 32Kb;
to a maximum length, configurable for eachtype (as defined by theTypemember associated with thattype each
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| Space | true |
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| t | description type |
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as defined in the | Concept |
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| t | 900000000000538005 |Description format reference set| |
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member associated with that - see the Description Format Reference Set specifications document for more details.The
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also defined the format of the term field (plain text, limited HTML, XHTML,) will also be configurable for eachtype, using the same mechanism as above;for each Control characters (including TABs, CRs and LFs) will not appear in
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| t | 900000000000540000 |Plain text| |
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and or | Concept |
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| t | 900000000000541001 |Limited HTML| |
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format format types.
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