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This International Standard defines a set of basic concepts required to describe formal concept representation systems, especially for health sciences, and describes representation of concepts and characteristics, for use especially in formal computer-based concept representation systems. A main motivation is to make it possible to precisely describe content models described in other International Standards. The principles established by ISO/TC 37 are extended here into a formal system suited to health informatics. Potential uses for this International Standard are - to describe formal definitions, parts of definitions and how they are related, and - to describe patterns for concept representation in a particular domain.