Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine


Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine

(sis'tĕ-mă-tīzd nō-men'klă-chūr med'i-sin), Morphologic classification system categorizing cancers, which correlates with TNM (q.v.) categories.

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine

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A systematized collection of medically useful terms published by the American College of Pathologists. The words in the collection are arranged in various fields to permit coding, computerization, sorting, and retrieval of large amounts of information from medical records.