SNOMED

(snō'med), Acronym for Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine.

SNOMED

Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine & Veterinary Health informatics A computerized electronic vocabulary system for medical databases, which may become the standard vocabulary for speech recognition systems and computer-based Pt records; it is the vocabulary of choice for reporting terminology. Cf HL7, LOINC, Read classification system, Read codes.

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine

SNOMED

A systematized collection of medically useful terms published by the American College of Pathologists. The words in the collection are arranged in various fields to permit coding, computerization, sorting, and retrieval of large amounts of information from medical records.

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SNOMED➣Systematized Nomenclature of Human Medicine (a multiaxial nomenclature for indexing medical records)