# Semantic Tag

A s*emantic tag* is part of a concept's Fully Specified Name description. It is placed in parentheses at the end of an FSN when authoring concepts. It indicates the domain to which a concept belongs; for example: body structure, disorder, or specimen.

The purpose of semantic tags is to disambiguate concepts which have the same commonly used word or phrase.

* For example,
  * Hematoma (morphologic abnormality)
    * Hematoma (disorder)

The following table contains the semantic tags for each domain.

<table><thead><tr><th width="323.2421875">Domain</th><th>Semantic tag</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Body structure (body structure)</td><td><p>(body structure) </p><p>-(cell) </p><p>-(cell structure) </p><p>-(morphologic abnormality)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Clinical finding (finding)</td><td><p>(finding) </p><p>-(disorder)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Environment or geographical location (environment / location)</td><td><p>(environment) </p><p>(geographic location)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Event (event)</td><td>(event)</td></tr><tr><td>Observable entity (observable entity)</td><td>(observable entity)</td></tr><tr><td>Organism (organism)</td><td>(organism)</td></tr><tr><td>Pharmaceutical / biologic product (product)</td><td><p>(clinical drug) </p><p>(medicinal product) </p><p>(medicinal product form) </p><p>(physical object) </p><p>(product)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Physical force (physical force)</td><td>(physical force)</td></tr><tr><td>Physical object (physical object)</td><td><p>(physical object) </p><p>-(product)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Procedure (procedure)</td><td><p>(procedure) </p><p>-(regime/therapy)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Qualifier value (qualifier value)</td><td><p>(qualifier value) </p><p>-(administration method) </p><p>-(basic dose form) </p><p>-(calculation) </p><p>-(disposition) </p><p>-(dose form) </p><p>-(intended site) </p><p>-(product name) </p><p>-(release characteristic) </p><p>-(role) </p><p>-(state of matter) </p><p>-(transformation) </p><p>-(supplier) </p><p>-(unit of presentation)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Record artifact (record artifact)</td><td>(record artifact)</td></tr><tr><td>Situation with explicit context (situation)</td><td>(situation)</td></tr><tr><td>SNOMED CT Model Component (metadata)</td><td><p>(attribute) </p><p>(core metadata concept) </p><p>(foundation metadata concept) </p><p>(link assertion) </p><p>(linkage concept) </p><p>(namespace concept) </p><p>(OWL metadata concept)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Social context (social concept)</td><td><p>(social concept) </p><p>-(ethnic group) </p><p>-(life style) </p><p>-(occupation) </p><p>-(person) </p><p>-(racial group) </p><p>-(religion/philosophy)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Special concept (special concept)</td><td>(navigational concept)</td></tr><tr><td>Specimen (specimen)</td><td>(specimen)</td></tr><tr><td>Staging and scales (staging scales)</td><td><p>(staging scale) </p><p>-(assessment scale) </p><p>-(tumor staging)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Substance (substance)</td><td>(substance)</td></tr></tbody></table>
