The left-hand content panel changes focus to the Taxonomy view, showing an expandable/collapsible tree navigator of SNOMED CT concepts. This can be considered as an "inverted tree", expanding outwards and downwards from the "root" concept
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t | 138875005 |SNOMED CT Concept (SNOMED RT+CTV3)| |
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When first opened, the Taxonomy is presented with
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t | 404684003 |Clinical finding (finding)| |
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as its focus concept, which has
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t | 138875005 |SNOMED CT Concept (SNOMED RT+CTV3)| |
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as its parent.
The focus concept is the second topmost entry, with its parent as the topmost, and its children concepts expanded below it. Each child node is initially shown "collapsed", so only immediate descendants of the focus concept are visible.
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title | SNOMED CD is a directed graph of concepts |
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Although the linear Taxonony is a convenient tool to browse SNOMED CT concepts via a two-dimensional tree view, it is a simplified representation based on the "proximal primitive parent" Is a Axiom relationships between concepts. |