Posterior Eye Segment

Preferred Label : Posterior Eye Segment;

NCIt definition : The larger portion of the eye behind the lens containing the retina, vitreous humor, choroid, and optic nerve.;

Details

Origin ID

C12906;

UMLS CUI

C0578853;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Eye [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Eye posterior segment [LOINC component]
- Eye, posterior segment structures [ICHI section]
- Eye, posterior segment structures [ICHI extension code]
- posterior segment of eyeball [UBERON concept]
Contains anatomical structure(s)
- Posterior Chamber of the Eye [NCIt concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Posterior eyeball segment structure (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- posterior eye segment [MeSH Descriptor]
- posterior eye segment [MeSH concept]
- posterior segment of eye [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Eye posterior segment [LOINC component]
- Posterior eyeball segment structure (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Posterior segment of eyeball [FMA entity]
- posterior eye segment [MeSH concept]
- posterior eye segment [MeSH Descriptor]
- posterior segment of eye [SNOMED Notion]

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