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This section provides editorial guidance for 373873005 |Pharmaceutical / biologic product (product)| subhierarchies, notably 763158003 |Medicinal product (product)|, and the supporting subhierarchy of 766940004 |Role (role)| from the Qualifier value (qualifier value) hierarchy.  Other supporting subhierarchies from Qualifier value (qualifier value) are also explained in this section of the guide.  

The |Pharmaceutical / biologic product (product)| hierarchy is comprised of multiple smaller hierarchies.  It contains the following semantic tags:

• (medicinal product)
• (clinical drug)
• (medicinal product form)
• (product)
• (physical object) - only 1 concept

The following subhierarchies will be retained as primitive subhierarchies until use cases and/or detailed requirements are known.  Requests for addition of new concepts or modification of existing concepts will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

• 410652009 |Blood product (product)| 
• 356497001 |Bone cements (product)| 
• 409248003 |Bone graft material (product)| 
• 411976009 |Bone morphogenic protein graft (product)|
• 116178008 |Dialysis fluid (product)| 
• 373783004 |Dietary product (product)|*
• 410969008 |Sterile maggots (product)|

_{*Editorial guidelines and related content updates for <<373783004 |Dietary product (product)| are managed by the Nutrition Project Group.}

The following subhierarchies will be retained "as is" until use cases and/or detailed requirements are known. Requests for addition of new concepts will be rejected. Requests for modification of existing concepts will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

• 411115002 |Drug-device combination product (product)|*
• 349365008 |Herbal medicine (product)|
• 349363001 |Homeopathic medicine (product)|
• 411126008 |Patch test product (product)|

_{*Development of editorial guidelines and related content updates for  <<411115002 |Drug-device combination product (product)| will be done in conjunction with the Device Project.}