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  • SNOMED CT to ICD-10 (to be released in July 2015)
  • SNOMED CT to ICD-9-CM
  • ICD-O (linking SNOMED CT morphologies with ICD-O codes)
  • SNOMED CT GP/FP subset to ICPC-2 (WONCA

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    WONCA: World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians

    , a classification for use in primary care / family practice)

Further SNOMED International maps are under development or in field trials such as

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Each SNOMED CT Concept (except the root concept) has a relationship to one or more parent concepts. Each of these parent concepts represents a more general clinical meaning (known as a supertype). The resultant network of relationships is more than a simple tree and forms a logical structure known as a polyhierarchy

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More precisely the |is-a| relationship polyhierarchy is a Directed Acyclic Graph [DAG]

. This structure makes it possible to represent meaning in a more complete way than is possible in a simple hierarchy.

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National Release Centers in several Member countries host their own distribution sites that allow SNOMED International Affiliates that are registered with them to download the International Edition of SNOMED CT. SNOMED International provides a central service for SNOMED International Affiliates to download the International Edition

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The current SNOMED International licensing and download service (https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org) is targeted at Affiliates in Non-Member Territories and those in Member countries that do not currently provide a download site.

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Downloading National Extensions or Editions

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