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The International Classification of Disease (ICD) can be considered as one major classification system used in health care. The classification system is well maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO), with a core objective classify diseases for reporting clinical data on morbidity and mortality reporting as well as medical billings.
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine–Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) can be a significant example of nomenclature systems used in nursing. It provides a standard vocabulary for defining illness, disease, health condition, sign and symptoms, diagnostic, surgical, and nursing procedures, physiological processes, anatomy, drug and functions. For example - 254637007 code will be used for Non-small cell lung cancer
Then there are other nomenclature systems like Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) defined for medical index, biomedical cataloges, and other health-related literature like Colorectal Neoplasms is used to define colon cancer and Gene Ontology (GO) used for regulated vocabulary for genes and their annotation.