BS ISO 19465:2017

This standard BS ISO 19465:2017 Traditional Chinese medicine. Categories of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinical terminological systems is classified in these ICS categories:

• 11.020.99 Other standards related to health care in general
• 01.040.11 Health care technology (Vocabularies)

This document specifies a categorial structure within the subject field of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinical practice. It describes the upper-level categories of TCM clinical terms and the nomenclature of the hierarchical categories. It is applicable only to clinical terminological systems in TCM disciplines, not to a comprehensive categorial structure of TCM, the conceptual definition of the hierarchy categories, and terms for individual TCM concepts.

The following are considered outside the scope of this document:

• comprehensive categories of TCM;

• the conceptual definition of the hierarchy categories.

• terms for individual TCM concepts;

• the terms or categories of Kampo, Korean medicine and other traditional medicines.