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To provide consistency and clarity, there has been an effort to use certain styles and specific terms within the Editorial Guide.

Although this has been the intent, it is the content of the Guide that has been the focus. Consequently, authors may find instances where alternative styles or terms are used.

Style

Type

Notes

Italics

To emphasize a word in a sentence or phrase
To indicate the name of something

Upper case first letter

To emphasize a word in a sentence or phrase not necessarily at the beginning

Periods.

Not used in:

Note

title	Don't do this

Lists when items contained therein are not sentences
At the end of sentences within tables

Examples

Presented as:

For example,

- - text of example

When possible, examples from the SNOMED CT browser are provided. When examples from the browser are not available, i.e do not yet exist, they are obtained from other sources

Macros:

Note = yellow
- For example
- For more information

Tip = green
- For example
- Concept modeling
- URLs

Warning = red
- Exceptions

Info = blue

General

Note

title	For more information

Contains general information or additional resource (may be a link)

Tip

title	Modeling

Contains modeling information

Warning

title	Exception or Inactivation or Under Revision

Contains information about content exceptions, inactivation, or under revision

Info

title	Hello

Informational box

Specific

Tables

Heading row - light green fill; bold font
Sub-heading row - light blue fill
Column heading - light blue fill
Other cells - may have pink fill for emphasis
Footing row - light yellow fill

Heading row





Footing row

Note: Tables generated from the Human Readable Concept Model have unique formatting

Text formats

"Quotation marks"
Bold font
ALL CAPS

Minimally used

Page headings

Section headings - Heading 2
Subsection headings - Heading 3

Terms
Used in Guide	Synonym / Other
Attribute	Concept Model Attribute; Relationship type
Authoring platform	~~SCA tool~~
Child	Subtype,

Subtype child

Immediate subtype
Classifier	Description logic (DL) classifier;Logic reasoner
Descendant	Child

and

, Subtype, child/children
Domain	Concept model domain
Electronic health application	Software application; Clinical information systems
Electronic health record or EHR	Electronic medical record; Electronic record; Electronic patient record
Extension	SNOMED CT extension, Member/Affiliate-Added Terminology
Grouping concept/Grouper	NA
Inactivate/Inactivation	~~Retire~~*
International Release	Core
Material entity	Material agent
Modeler/Modeling	Author/Authoring, Editor/Editing
Parent	Supertype,

Supertype parent

Immediate supertype
Precoordinated	Precoordinated expression
Postcoordinated	Postcoordinated expression
Qualifier	Qualifying characteristic
Range	Concept model range, Allowable value

Relationship

Role group

Role

~~Relationship group~~
Root concept	Top-level concept
Semantic tag	Semantic type, Hierarchy tag, Hierarchy designator
Situation with Explicit Context	Context-dependent Category
Sufficiently defined	Fully defined*
*Strikethrough = No longer used

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