How to represent "other" for coded values

Classifications like ICD often include such kind of “catch-all” codes as NEC(not elsewhere classified) codes. Terminologies/Ontologies, such as SNOMED CT, don’t like these concepts which meanings are not persistent depending on the other sibling codes.

You will never get a snomed ct code for such a concept.

Maybe it’s a open-vs-closed world issue.

Related Links:
When Is Content Rejected?
https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=71172163

Comparison between a SNOMED CT Problem List and the ICD-10-CM/PCS HIPAA Code Sets
http://library.ahima.org/doc?oid=301254#.XrXwBda-sTk

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