# Veterinary SNOMED & LOINC

**URL:** <https://forum.loinc.org/t/veterinary-snomed-loinc/1884>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 14, 2024, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.loinc.org/t/veterinary-snomed-loinc/1884 "2024-05-14T05:35:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![nevillepattle](https://forum.loinc.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@nevillepattle](https://forum.loinc.org/u/nevillepattle)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.loinc.org/t/veterinary-snomed-loinc/1884/1 "2024-05-14T05:35:42Z")

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Hi does anyone know if there is a Veterinary equivalent to SNOMED & LOINC?

thanks Neville

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**Author:** ![timbriscoe](https://forum.loinc.org/user_avatar/forum.loinc.org/timbriscoe/32/938_2.png) [@timbriscoe](https://forum.loinc.org/u/timbriscoe)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.loinc.org/t/veterinary-snomed-loinc/1884/2 "2024-05-14T14:36:00Z")

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Hello Neville, both SNOMED CT and LOINC have concepts for nonhuman species. I can’t fully address SCT’s vet content but it appears to be in the form of [an extension named VetSCT](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/sourcereleasedocs/current/SNOMEDCT_VET/index.html).

LOINC’s vet content can be found via our [SearchLOINC](https://loinc.org/search) tool. (Use your LOINC username and password to log in.) Simply search for [veterinary](https://loinc.org/search/?t=1&s=veterinary) to find appropriate concepts. Alternatively, you can search for a specific concept and then use the Filter function to narrow the results under Tags to just Veterinary. (See screenshot below.)

Veterinary clinical concepts have a LOINC Class of CLIN:VET. Lab vet terms appear in other classes but usually have veterinary in the name or synonyms, e.g. [88869-3](https://loinc.org/88869-3/). Again, you can use the Tags filter in SearchLOINC to identify them.

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**Author:** ![osbornemj](https://forum.loinc.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@osbornemj](https://forum.loinc.org/u/osbornemj)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.loinc.org/t/veterinary-snomed-loinc/1884/3 "2024-07-05T00:20:07Z")

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Hi Neville,  
SNOVET (the veterinary extension of SNOMED CT) is browsable on CSIRO’s internet facing terminology server ([ontoserver](https://tx.ontoserver.csiro.au/fhir)) and hence also available for mapping in SNOMED International’s [SNAP2SNOMED](https://snap.snomedtools.org/) web application. In the ontoserver shrimp browser, which is part of ontoserver, select the Veterinary extension under the version box and type the term into the search box.