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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2009 Mar 12;42(3):494–503. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.03.005

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Classification causes semantic inheritance with refinement. For MED Code 48970, the “ENTITY-MEASURED” inherited slot value, “32338”, is refined to the explicitly instantiated value, “32344”, since 32344 is more specialized than 32338 in the substance hierarchy.