Organizing the animal hierarchy into a Linnean Taxonomy in SNOMED CT.
SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) was created from a merger of SNOMED Reference Terminology (SNOMED RT)and CTV3 the Read Codes. The animal hierarchy in SNOMED RT was organized by common names, such as "Dog" and "Cat". It was later decided to convert common names to Linnean Taxonomy in SNOMED CT, such as Canis familiaris and Felis Sylvestris,in accordance with the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) and the Smithsonian mammalian taxonomy.
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College of American Pathologists, Northfield, Il, USA.
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D000818:Animals; D002965:Classification; D004285:Dogs / Q000145:classification*; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine