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A lexicon organizes the vocabulary that may appear in an AIM template. When you build a template, you can select terms from your a lexicon that users of the template will be able to select as answers to template questions. For example, if an AIM template imported into an appropriate application prompted the user to specify the location of a lesion's geographic center, the template could restrict answers to certain allowed terms from the lexicon.

You must first create a lexicon, then add allowed terms from that lexicon entries to a templateit. Each Those lexicon contains lexicon entries , which become the allowed terms in the templatesthat you add to a template.

Create a Lexicon

To create a lexicon

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  1. Click the Lexicons tab.
  2. Select the lexicon you want to delete by clicking it.
  3. Below the left At the bottom of the Lexicon panel, click Delete lexicon button. The following window appears.
    Window that says Are you sure you want to delete this lexicon?
  4. Click Yes. The lexicon is no longer in the list of lexicons.

Create a Lexicon Entry

A single lexicon entry can populate any number of lexicons.

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To create a lexicon entry

  1. Click the Lexicons tab.
  2. Select the lexicon that you want to contain your new lexicon entry.
  3. At the bottom of the Lexicon Terms panel, click Create template component buttonImage Added. A new section for the new lexicon entry appears at the bottom of the list of lexicon terms.
    "Blank fields for Code MeaningImage Added
  4. Complete the fields to describe the lexicon entry.

    Field

    Description

    Code Meaning

     

    Code Value

     

    Coding Scheme Designator

     

    Coding Scheme Version

     

    Description

     

    Lexicon Name

     

Delete a Lexicon Entry

To delete a lexicon entry

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