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The morphologic abnormality subhierarchy is located two levels below the Body structure hierarchy with siblings Apoptosis and Structure resulting from tissue repair process:
SNOMED CT concept
Body structure (body structure)
Body structure, altered from its original anatomical structure (morphologic abnormality)
Apoptosis (morphologic abnormality)
Morphologically abnormal structure (morphologic abnormality)
Structure resulting from tissue repair process (morphologic abnormality)
The concepts in the morphologic abnormality hierarchy represent abnormal body structures.
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The subhierarchy of 118956008 |Body structure, altered from its original anatomical structure (morphologic abnormality)| is to remain primitive. Authors are not to define morphologic abnormality concepts.
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