RxNorm Concept Details
rxnorm_conceptRead-onlyIdempotent
Get detailed information about a specific RxNorm concept by RxCUI.
Use this tool to:
Get the full name and synonyms for a drug
Check the concept status (active, remapped, etc.)
View related concepts (ingredients, brands, forms)
Provide an RxCUI (RxNorm Concept Unique Identifier) like "161" — as a string of digits or as an integer.
Tool call template
Replace each placeholder with a value matching the input schema. Only required parameters are included; add optional parameters as needed.
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"arguments": {
"rxcui": "<rxcui>"
},
"name": "rxnorm_concept"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| rxcui | Yes | RxNorm Concept Unique Identifier (string of digits or integer, e.g. "161" or 161) | |
| include_related | No | Include related concepts (ingredients, brands, dose forms). Default false; true/false, also accepted as the strings "true"/"false" |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| tty | Yes | RxNorm term type (e.g. "IN" ingredient, "SCD" clinical drug, "SBD" branded drug); null when found=false. | |
| name | Yes | RxNorm normalized name of the concept; null when found=false. | |
| found | Yes | false when RxNorm has no concept with this RxCUI (the lookup answered; the fields below are null) | |
| rxcui | Yes | The RxCUI looked up. | |
| status | Yes | RxNorm history status (e.g. "Active", "Remapped", "Obsolete"); "Active" when RxNav does not report one; null when found=false. | |
| synonym | Yes | RxNorm synonym (may be empty); null when found=false. | |
| umlscui | Yes | UMLS Concept Unique Identifier linked to the concept (empty when none); null when found=false. | |
| language | Yes | Language of the concept name as RxNav reports it (e.g. "ENG"); null when found=false. | |
| suppress | Yes | RxNorm suppress flag ("N" = not suppressed, the default when RxNav omits it); null when found=false. | |
| provenance | Yes | Provenance block: source, URL, data vintage, extraction instant, origin diagnostics, citation, license | |
| attribution | Yes | Canonical source URLs of this response (attribution list) | |
| remapped_to | Yes | RxCUIs a remapped concept was replaced by; empty otherwise. | |
| related_groups | Yes | Related concepts (ingredients, brands, dose forms) grouped by term type; null unless include_related=true. |