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Description file - Detailed Specification

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Field

Data type

Purpose

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PreSpacefalse
tMutable
LinkTypesubtle

Part of Primary Key

id

Specref
RefType(data type)
tSCTID

Uniquely identifies the

Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription.

NO

YES
(Full/Snapshot) 

Specref
RefType(field)
teffectiveTime

Specref
RefType(data type)
tTime

Specifies the inclusive date at which the component version's state became the then current valid state of the component

Note: In distribution files the effectiveTime should follow the short ISO date format (YYYYMMDD) and should not include the hours, minutes, seconds or timezone indicator.

YES

YES (Full)
Optional (Snapshot) 

Specref
RefType(field)
tactive

Specref
RefType(data type)
tBoolean

Specifies whether the state of the

Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription
was
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tactive
or
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tinactive
from the nominal release date specified by the
Specref
RefType(field)
teffectiveTime
.

YES

NO

Specref
RefType(field)
tmoduleId

Specref
RefType(data type)
tSCTID

Identifies the

Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription
version's module. Set to a
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tchild
of
Concept
t900000000000443000|Module|
ShowFormatinline
within the metadata
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
thierarchy.

YES

NO

conceptId

Specref
RefType(data type)
tSCTID

Identifies the

Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tconcept
to which this
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription
applies. Set to the
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tidentifier
of a
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tconcept
in the
Concept
t138875005|SNOMED CT Concept|
ShowFormatinline
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
thierarchy
within the
Specref
RefTypefile
tConcept
. Note that a specific version of a
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription
is not directly bound to a specific version of the
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tconcept
to which it applies. Which version of a
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription
applies to a
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tconcept
depends on its effectiveTime and the point in time at which it is accessed.

NO

NO

languageCode

Specref
RefType(data type)
tString

Specifies the

Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tlanguage
of the
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription
text using the two character ISO-639-1 code. Note that this specifies a
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tlanguage
level only, not a
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdialect
or country code.

NO

NO

Specref
RefType(field)
ttypeId

Specref
RefType(data type)
tSCTID

Identifies whether the

Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription
is
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tfully specified name
a
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tsynonym
or other
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription
type. This field is set to a
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tchild
of
Concept
t900000000000446008|Description type|
ShowFormatinline
in the Metadata
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
thierarchy.

NO

NO

term

Specref
RefType(data type)
tString

The

Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription
version's text value, represented in
Specref
RefTypenone
tUTF-8
encoding.

YES

NO

Specref
RefType(field)
tcaseSignificanceId

Specref
RefType(data type)
tSCTID

Identifies the

Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tconcept
enumeration value that represents the case significance of this
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tdescription
version. For example, the term may be completely case sensitive, case insensitive or initial letter case insensitive. This field will be set to a
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
tchild
of
Concept
t900000000000447004|Case significance|
ShowFormatinline
within the metadata
Gloss
PreSpacefalse
thierarchy.

YES

NO



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