Topographical codes
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In medicine
, "topographical codes" (or "topography codes") are codes that indicate a specific location in the body.
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, "topographical codes" (or "topography codes") are codes that indicate a specific location in the body.
Examples
Only the first of these is a system dedicated only to topography. The others are more generalized systems that contain topographic axes.- Nomina AnatomicaNomina AnatomicaIn the late nineteenth century some 50,000 terms for various body parts were in use. The same structures were described by different names, depending on the anatomist’s school and national tradition. Vernacular translations of Latin and Greek, as well as various eponymous terms, were barriers to...
(updated to Terminologia AnatomicaTerminologia AnatomicaTerminologia Anatomica is the international standard on human anatomic terminology. It was developed by the Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology and the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists and was released in 1998. It supersedes the previous standard, Nomina...
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- SNOMED
- MeSHMedical Subject HeadingsMedical Subject Headings is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences; it can also serve as a thesaurus that facilitates searching...
(the 'A' axis)