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Combining Morphologic Abnormalities

When modeling a concept requiring two role groups with the same body structure but two different morphologies (because a combined morphology does not exist), then those morphologic abnormalities can be combined to create a single morphologic abnormality concept. Keep the newly-created morphologic abnormality concept primitive, as all morphologic abnormality concepts are primitive.

For example

Disorder concept

Associated morphology

Associated morphology

Combined Associated morphology

Another example is 1076491000119102 |Nontraumatic complete rupture of muscle or tendon structure of rotator cuff of left shoulder (disorder)|.

If this disorder had the same finding site of |Structure of rotator cuff of left shoulder (body structure)| with two different morphologic abnormalities of |Nontraumatic rupture| and |Complete rupture|, then those two morphologic abnormality concepts can be combined to create a single, primitive, morphologic abnormality concept of |Nontraumatic complete rupture (morphologic abnormality)|. This will prevent modeling with two relationship groups.

Instead of modeling as in this stated view:

Model as shown in this stated view:

Calcified hematoma of head (disorder)

Pathologic calcification, calcified structure (morphologic abnormality)

Hematoma (morphologic abnormality)

Calcified hematoma (morphologic abnormality)

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