Status: current, Sufficiently defined by necessary conditions definition status (core metadata concept). Date: 31-Jan 2002. Module: SNOMED CT core
Descriptions:
Outbound Relationships | Type | Target | Active | Characteristic | Refinability | Group | Values |
Surgical removal (procedure) | Is a | Surgical procedure | false | Inferred relationship | Existential restriction modifier (core metadata concept) | ||
Surgical removal (procedure) | Is a | To take something off or out, to get rid of, to eliminate | true | Inferred relationship | Existential restriction modifier (core metadata concept) | ||
Surgical removal (procedure) | Method (attribute) | Surgical removal - action | true | Inferred relationship | Existential restriction modifier (core metadata concept) | 1 | |
Surgical removal (procedure) | Is a | Intentional, structural alteration of the human body by mechanical, thermal, light-based, electromagnetic, or chemical means, and/or by the incision or destruction of tissues using instruments to cut, burn, vaporise, freeze, suture, probe, or manipulate by closed reductions. | true | Inferred relationship | Existential restriction modifier (core metadata concept) |
This concept is not in any reference sets