279559003

SNOMED CT concept 279559003 is "Anterior cricothyroid ligament" (FSN: Structure of anterior cricothyroid ligament (body structure)). It sits in the body structure semantic tag.

No direct ICD-10-CM mapping is recorded for Anterior cricothyroid ligament in this build. SNOMED CT and ICD-10 do not always have one-to-one mappings; some concepts only map through UMLS or remain unmapped.

Anterior cricothyroid ligament is grouped under UMLS CUI C0458568. UMLS CUIs let you bridge between SNOMED CT and other terminologies (ICD-10, ICD-11, LOINC, RxNorm).

Anterior cricothyroid ligament is in the SNOMED CT "body structure" semantic tag. Semantic tags partition the terminology by what kind of clinical idea each concept represents (finding, disorder, procedure, body structure, substance, and so on).

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