Substance Groupers Based on Structure

Overview

Groupers based on structural properties of the substance that are deemed to be clinically useful will be included in the Substance hierarchy.

For example,

Benzodiazepine (substance)
Quinolone (substance)

Modeling

Parent concept

Most distal appropriate descendant of 312413002 |Substance categorized by structure (substance)|

Semantic tag

(substance)

Definition status

Primitive

Attributes

None

Exemplar

The following illustrates the stated and inferred view.

Terming

FSN

Use the following pattern for the FSN. Groupers are expressed in the singular, i.e., compound not compounds.

Examples of substances that represent a structural grouper:

Organic nitrogen compound (substance)
Halide compound (substance)
Triazine derivative (substance)
Copper and/or copper compound (substance)
Phenothiazine and/or phenothiazine derivative (substance)
Nucleotide (substance)

Where the same word is used to identify both a group of substances with a particular chemical structure and a particular chemical substance, the following terming for the FSN is used for the substance grouper concept.

Substance with X structure (substance)

For example,

Substance with tetracycline structure (substance)
Substance with cresol structure (substance)
Substance with benzene structure (substance)

Preferred Term

Use the following pattern for the Preferred Term.

For example,

Organic nitrogen compound
Halide compound
Triazine derivative
Copper and/or copper compound
Phenothiazine and/or phenothioazine derivative
Nucleotide

Where the same word is used to identify both a group of substances with a particular chemical structure and a particular chemical substance the following pattern will be used for PT the substance grouper concept.\

Substance with X structure\

For example,