Most medical terms are Greek or Latin in origin and can be broken down into one or more word parts: 1.Prefix 2.Root 3.Suffix *Medical term must always have at least 1 root* - Found at the beginning of a word - Found at the end of a word - Gives the essential meaning of the wo...
Ontologies that are registered in the Foundry are assigned a unique prefix that precedes names of ontology terms and distinguishes them in the common naming space. Currently there are 9 fully revised OBO Foundry ontologies and 121 candidate ontologies that cover topics in biomedical s...
We evaluated OAE and encountered several conceptual issues, particularly with its definition of adverse events as ‘a pathological bodily process that occurs after a medical intervention.’ While this definition may align with the suggestions of BFO founders [20] equating events with processes, we ...
Primary acalculia (or “anarithmetia”) is most commonly a disturbance of numerical ability that results from disease in the left parietal region affecting the horizontal intraparietal sulcus. From: The Mental Status Examination Handbook, 2022 ...
While the biomedical community has published several “open data” sources in the last decade, most researchers still endure severe logistical and technical challenges to discover, query, and integrate heterogeneous data and knowledge from multiple sourc
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A three-phased approach was used in the development of the EDS. This approach is consistent with the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for design and evaluation of complex interventions [38]. The EDS meets the MRC definition of a complex intervention: it is composed of multiple compo...
(cf. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativism). Sanskrit, on the other hand, is linguistically very rich in this respect. The wordNirvikalpais a composite lexeme composed of the negatory/contra-existential prefixni(not, without) and the termvikalpa(thought, conception), and it can be ...
Epidemiology is a data-intensive and multi-disciplinary subject, where data integration, curation and sharing are becoming increasingly relevant, given its global context and time constraints. The semantic annotation of epidemiology resources is a corner
Occasionally it is formed from the spinal nerves of C4 through C8 or C6 through T2, leading to a prefixed or postfixed brachial plexus, respectively. The 5 nerve roots of the plexus join to form upper, middle, and lower trunks, followed by divisions, cords, and ultimately terminal branches...