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Table 3 Object properties of the SCTO

From: SNOMED CT standard ontology based on the ontology for general medical science

Property

Definition

Domain

Range

Has_description

Determines a description for a class.

SNOMED CT Concept

SNOMED CT Description

IsDescriptionOf

Is the inverse of Has_description.

SNOMED CT Description

SNOMED CT Concept

Relationship_destinationId

Identifies the class that is the destination of the relationship. Set to an identifier of a concept in the Concept file.

SNOMED CT Relationship

SNOMED CT Concept

Relationship_sourceId

Identifies the source concept of the relationship. Set to an identifier of a concept in the Concept file.

SNOMED CT Relationship

SNOMED CT Concept

Relationship_typeId

A concept enumeration value from the metadata hierarchy that identifies the semantic type of the relationship. It is a subtype of 410,662,002 |Concept model attribute|.

SNOMED CT Relationship

Linkage Concept

IsSourceOf

Determines the source of a relationship. It is the inverse of Relationship_sourceId.

SNOMED CT Concept

SNOMED CT Relationship

IsDestinationOf

Determines the destination of a relationship. It is the inverse of Relationship_destinationId.

SNOMED CT Concept

SNOMED CT Relationship

Grouped_Relations

Used to explicitly determine the grouped relationships

SNOMED CT Relationship

SNOMED CT Relationship

Total number of object properties

8