Topographical code
In medicine, "topographical codes" (or "topography codes") are codes that indicate a specific location in the body.{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Edward Theodore |last2=Hayden |first2=Adaline C. |title=Anatomy for the Medical Record Librarian |date=1956 |publisher=Physicians' Record Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MMdqAAAAMAAJ |access-date=16 May 2023}}
Examples
Only the first of these is a system dedicated only to topography. The others are more generalized systems that contain topographic axes.
- Nomina Anatomica (updated to Terminologia Anatomica)
- ICD-O
- SNOMED
- MeSH (the 'A' axis)