The Description file holdsthat describeAis used to give meaning to aand provide well-understood and standard ways of referring to a
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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
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Y
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effectiveTime
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Time
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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
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Boolean
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N
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Specifies whether the state of thewasorfrom the nominal release date specified by the effectiveTime .
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moduleId
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SCTID
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N
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Identifies theversion's module. Set to aof
Scg expression |
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900000000000443000|Module| |
within the metadata...
conceptId
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SCTID
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Y
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Identifies theto which thisapplies. Set to theof ain the
Scg expression |
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138875005|SNOMED CT Concept| |
within the Concept file. Note that a specific version of ais not directly bound to a specific version of theto which it applies. Which version of aapplies to adepends on its effectiveTime and the point in time at which it is accessed....
languageCode
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String
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Y
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Specifies theof thetext using the two character ISO-639-1 code. Note that this specifies alevel only, not aor country code.
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typeId
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SCTID
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Y
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Identifies whether theisaor othertype. This field is set to aof
Scg expression |
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900000000000446008|Description type| |
in the Metadata...
term
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String
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N
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Theversion's text value, represented in UTF-8 encoding.
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caseSignificanceId
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SCTID
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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
Scg expression |
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900000000000447004|Case significance| |
within the metadata...
holds that describe Gloss |
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Space | true |
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t | SNOMED CT concepts. |
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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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CapId | description-file-detailed-specification |
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CapType | Table |
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Description file - Detailed Specification |
Bookmarked content insert |
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Start | filespec |
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Page | REUSE:Description File |
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Only one
record 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
Specref |
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RefType | (field) |
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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
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 component will be inactivated (by appending a row with the same id and
thefield the field set to false) and a another row will be added representing a new component with a new id. Only limited changes may be made to the
term field, as defined by editorial rules.
Eachwill Each
will have at least
onewith a typeId of Scg expression |
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ShowParts | term |
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ShowFormat | nospaceone 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 | 900000000000013009|synonym| |
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ShowFormat | inline |
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and at least
onewith a typeId of Scg expression |
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ShowParts | term |
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ShowFormat | nospace |
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900000000000003001 |Fully specified 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 aonly has onewith a typeId of
Scg expression |
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900000000000003001 |Fully specified name| |
across allcodes within a release, then thatcan be taken as thefor allandand need not be explicitly included in everyassociated 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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ShowFormat | inline |
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across all codes within a release, then that can be taken as the Gloss |
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Space | true |
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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
field will be restricted as follows:
- to an overall maximum length of 32Kb;
to a maximum length, configurable for eachas each
Gloss |
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Space | true |
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t | description type |
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as defined in the Scg expression |
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ShowParts | term member associated with that - see the Description Format Reference Set specifications document for more details.The
scg-expressionShowPartsterm | also defined the format of the term field (plain text, limited HTML, XHTML) for each Control characters (including TABs, CRs and LFs) will not appear in
scg-expressionShowPartsterm | or scg-expressionShowPartsterm | format types.
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