SNOMED CT Concept 78055008: Crushed chest with open wound into thoracic cavity

What is this code?

SNOMED CT is a clinical terminology used to capture healthcare meaning in a standardized, interoperable form. This concept is typed as a disorder in the terminology hierarchy.

When is it used?

• Used to represent a standardized clinical concept in health records, terminology services, and semantic mappings.
• Often linked to diagnoses, findings, procedures, body structures, organisms, substances, or observable entities depending on the concept type.
• Semantic tag: disorder

What it does not mean

• A terminology concept label alone does not replace clinical interpretation, diagnosis context, or treatment advice.

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Where you may see this code

You may see this concept in clinical documentation systems, problem lists, terminology services, interoperability records, or semantic mapping workflows.

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