285547004

SNOMED CT concept 285547004 is "Ability to elevate soft palate" (FSN: Ability to elevate soft palate (observable entity)). It sits in the observable entity semantic tag.

No direct ICD-10-CM mapping is recorded for Ability to elevate soft palate 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.

Ability to elevate soft palate is grouped under UMLS CUI C0563431. UMLS CUIs let you bridge between SNOMED CT and other terminologies (ICD-10, ICD-11, LOINC, RxNorm).

Ability to elevate soft palate is in the SNOMED CT "observable entity" 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).

SNOMED CT is the world's most comprehensive clinical terminology, with around 350,000 active concepts covering diseases, findings, procedures, body structures, and substances. It is the recommended terminology for EHR problem lists in many countries.

SNOMED CT describes clinical meaning. ICD-10 (and ICD-10-CM) describes billing categories. The SNOMED to ICD-10-CM map (maintained by NLM) gives one or more ICD codes per SNOMED concept. We expose those mappings on each concept page and through the cross_references field on the API.

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