2011-09-20
Barry Smith
Anand Kumar
Albert Goldfain
Bill Hogan
Cornelius Rosse
Richard Scheuermann
The Ontology for General Medical Science (OGMS) is based on the papers Toward an Ontological Treatment of Disease and Diagnosis and On Carcinomas and Other Pathological Entities. The ontology attempts to address some of the issues raised at the Workshop on Ontology of Diseases (Dallas, TX). OGMS was formerly called the clinical phenotype ontology. Terms from OGMS hang from the Basic Formal Ontology.
The latest version of OGMS is always available at http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms.owl
This is version 2011-09-20 aka '0.9'
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ogms/2011-09-20/ogms.owl
The OGMS developer site is http://code.google.com/p/ogms/
The discussion group is http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss
If you are interested in participating in the development of OGMS, please send email to albertgoldfain@gmail.com. Be sure to include a google-account username with your request (this will be the username associated with a gmail address).
This ontology is in early development. Expect it to change.
Lindsay Cowell
Werner Ceusters
Alan Ruttenberg
Sivaram Arabandi
Daniel Merico
definition
editor note
curator note
definition source
definition editor
OBO:imported "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl"
a data item is an information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements.
OBO:sourced "OBI:0000142"
an information content entity is an entity that is generically dependent on some artifact and stands in relation of aboutness to some entity
obsolete_representation
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T10:17:44Z
clinical finding
A representation that is either the output of a clinical history taking or a physical examination or an image finding, or some combination thereof.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2010-07-19T10:18:02Z
clinical history
A series of statements representing health-relevant qualities of a patient and of a patient's family.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2010-07-19T10:18:59Z
clinical picture
creation date: 2010-07-19T10:20:20Z
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
A representation of the clinically significant bodily components and/or bodily processes of a human being that is inferred from the totality of relevant clinical findings.
image finding
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T10:21:10Z
A representation of an image that supports an inference to an assertion about some quality of a patient.
laboratory finding
creation date: 2009-06-23T10:21:58Z
A representation of a quality of a specimen that is the output of a laboratory test and that can support an inference to an assertion about some quality of the patient.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
preclinical finding
Albert Goldfain
A representation of a quality of a patient that is (1) recorded by a clinician because the quality is hypothesized to be of clinical significance and (2) refers to qualities obtaining in the patient prior to their becoming detectable in a clinical history taking or physical examination.
creation date: 2009-06-23T10:22:44Z
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
symptom
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2010-11-18T11:02:10Z
A quality of a patient that is observed by the patient or a processual entity experienced by the patient, either of which is hypothesized by the patient to be a realization of a disease.
note: defined class
obsolete_bodily feature of a patient
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:09:37Z
manifestation of a disease
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:12:33Z
A quality of a patient that is (a) a deviation from clinical normality that exists in virtue of the realization of a disease and (b) is observable.
phenotype
creation date: 2010-07-19T11:13:49Z
A (combination of) quality(ies) of an organism determined by the interaction of its genetic make-up and environment that differentiates specific instances of a species from other instances of the same species.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
sign
Albert Goldfain
note: defined class
A quality of a patient, a material entity that is part of a patient, or a processual entity that a patient participates in, any one of which is observed in a physical examination and is deemed by the clinician to be of clinical significance.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2010-11-18T11:14:36Z
clinical manifestation of a disease
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:15:43Z
A manifestation of a disease that is detectable in a clinical history taking or physical examination.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
preclinical manifestation of a disease
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
A manifestation of a disease that exists prior to the time at which it would be detected in a clinical history taking or physical examination, if the patient were to present to a clinician. A realization of a disease that exists prior to its becoming detectable in a clinical history taking or physical examination.
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:16:50Z
clinical phenotype
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
A clinically abnormal phenotype.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:18:05Z
disease phenotype
A clinically abnormal phenotype that is characteristic of a single disease.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:18:39Z
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
vital sign
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
A physical sign in which a non-zero value is standardly considered to be an indication that the organism is alive.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:19:17Z
predisposition to disease of type X
A disposition in an organism that constitutes an increased risk of the organism's subsequently developing the disease X.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:20:25Z
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
disease
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:21:20Z
A disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
homeostasis
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:22:01Z
Albert Goldfain
genetic predisposition to disease of type X
A predisposition to disease of type X whose physical basis is a constitutional abnormality in an organism's genome. This abnormality is the physical basis for the increased risk of acquiring the disease X.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:23:07Z
acquired genetic disease
A disease whose physical basis is an acquired genetic disorder.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:24:05Z
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
constitutional genetic disease
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:24:59Z
A disease whose physical basis is a constitutional genetic disorder.
Albert Goldfain
obsolete_infectious disease
A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:25:51Z
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
abnormal homeostasis
Homeostasis that is clinically abnormal for an organism of a given type and age in a given environment.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:26:44Z
Albert Goldfain
normal homeostasis
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
Homeostasis of a type that is not clinically abnormal.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:27:28Z
configuration
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:36:24Z
Albert Goldfain
A quality which is an spatial arrangement or distribution of a(n) independent continuant(s) across a Three Dimensional Region.
pathological physical configuration
A configuration which deviates in some way from a canonical configuration for a particular organism.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:36:58Z
disorder
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
A material entity which is clinically abnormal and part of an extended organism. Disorders are the physical basis of disease.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:39:44Z
epigenetic disorder
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:40:27Z
A disorder whose etiology involves (1) a modification to the patient's genomic DNA which leads to alterations in the normal expression pattern of the genome, but is (2) not a change in the nucleotide sequence.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
genetic disorder
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:41:14Z
Albert Goldfain
A disorder whose etiology involves an abnormality in the nucleotide sequence of an organism's genome.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
obsolete_infectious disorder
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:41:45Z
A disorder whose etiology includes the presence of a pathogenic organism within a host organism or an abnormal imbalance in the normal resident organismal flora.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
obsolete_secondary infection
A disorder consisting in the presence of a pathogenic organism within a host organism that occurs due to the disposition established by a prior infection with a pathogenic organism of a different kind.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:42:20Z
Albert Goldfain
acquired genetic disorder
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
A genetic disorder acquired by a single cell in an organism that leads to a population of cells within the organism bearing the disorder.
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:43:09Z
constitutional genetic disorder
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
A genetic disorder inherited during conception that is part of all cells in the organism.
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:43:44Z
obsolete_standardized clinical process
A fiat process part which involves the execution of a standardized protocol for measuring qualities of a patient.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:47:06Z
clinical history taking
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:49:16Z
Albert Goldfain
An interview in which a clinician elicits a clinical history from a patient or from a third party who is reporting on behalf of the patient.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
laboratory test
A measurement assay that has as input a patient-derived specimen, and as output a result that represents a quality of the specimen.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:49:49Z
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
physical examination
creation date: 2010-07-19T11:50:18Z
A sequence of acts of observing and measuring qualities of a patient performed by a clinician; measurements may occur with and without elicitation.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
etiological process
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:53:07Z
Albert Goldfain
A process in an organism that leads to a subsequent disorder.
bodily process
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:53:49Z
Albert Goldfain
pathological bodily process
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:54:29Z
A bodily process that is clinically abnormal.
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
disease course
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:55:44Z
The totality of all processes through which a given disease instance is realized.
chronic disease course
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
A disease course that (a) does not terminate in a return to normal homeostasis and (b) would, absent intervention, fall within abnormal homeostatic range.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:56:26Z
Albert Goldfain
progressive disease course
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:57:09Z
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
A disease course that (a) does not terminate in a return to normal homeostasis and (b) would, absent intervention, involve an increasing deviation from homeostasis.
transient disease course
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
Albert Goldfain
A disease course that terminates in a return to normal homeostasis.
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:57:44Z
_undefined primitive term
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:58:22Z
obsolete_bodily feature
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:58:39Z
Albert Goldfain
clinically abnormal
creation date: 2009-06-23T11:59:24Z
Albert Goldfain
physical basis
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-06-23T12:00:09Z
realization
creation date: 2009-06-23T12:00:39Z
Albert Goldfain
diagnosis
Albert Goldfain
The representation of a conclusion of a diagnostic process.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
creation date: 2009-06-23T12:42:23Z
normal value
A value for a quality reported in a lab report and asserted by the testing lab or the kit manufacturer to be normal based on a statistical treatment of values from a reference population.
creation date: 2009-06-26T10:31:34Z
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
obsolete_infection
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-07-08T12:20:49Z
pathological formation
Albert Goldfain
TODO: Define, relate to disorder, and place in the OGMS hierarchy.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/ISMB/ISMB_Bio-ontologies.pdf
creation date: 2009-07-13T02:14:59Z
pathological anatomical structure
creation date: 2009-07-13T02:14:05Z
Albert Goldfain
An anatomical structure (FMA) is pathological whenever (1) it has come into being as a result of changes in some pre-existing canonical anatomical structure, (2) through processes other than the expression of the normal complement of genes of an organism of the given type, and (3) is predisposed to have health-related consequences for the organism in question manifested by symptoms and signs.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/ISMB/ISMB_Bio-ontologies.pdf
portion of pathological body substance
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/ISMB/ISMB_Bio-ontologies.pdf
Albert Goldfain
TODO: Define, relate to disorder, and place in the OGMS hierarchy.
creation date: 2009-07-13T02:15:17Z
pathological transformation
creation date: 2009-07-13T02:17:07Z
Albert Goldfain
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/ISMB/ISMB_Bio-ontologies.pdf
A pathological bodily process in which a canonical anatomical structure becomes a pathological anatomical structure.
pathological derivation
creation date: 2009-07-13T02:17:24Z
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/ISMB/ISMB_Bio-ontologies.pdf
A pathological bodily process in which matter is reorganized in such a way as to give rise to new pathological formations which take the place of entities existing earlier.
Albert Goldfain
pathological invasion
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2009-07-13T02:17:47Z
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/ISMB/ISMB_Bio-ontologies.pdf
TODO: Define.
physical examination finding
Albert Goldfain
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=26
TODO: Define.
creation date: 2009-11-24T04:51:11Z
organism population
An aggregate of organisms of the same type.
creation date: 2009-11-24T04:51:11Z
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=33
Albert Goldfain
pain
TODO: Define.
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=13
creation date: 2009-11-24T04:51:11Z
Albert Goldfain
syndrome
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=32
A pattern of signs and symptoms that typically co-occur.
creation date: 2009-11-24T04:51:11Z
Albert Goldfain
extended organism
Albert Goldfain
An object aggregate consisting of an organism and all material entities located within the organism, overlapping the organism, or occupying sites formed in part by the organism.
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=3
creation date: 2010-01-25T04:51:11Z
patient symptom report
creation date: 2010-01-25T04:51:11Z
Albert Goldfain
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=12
A communication from a patient about something they perceive as being abnormal about their body or life.
congenital malformation
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=28
A structurally anomalous part of an organism acquired during fetal development and present at birth (but not necessarily hereditary) which is hypothesized to be harmful for the organism.
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2010-03-31T04:51:11Z
treatment
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=35
creation date: 2010-03-31T04:51:11Z
Albert Goldfain
A processual entity whose completion is hypothesized (by a healthcare provider) to alleviate the signs and symptoms associated with a disorder
convalescence
A processual entity during which a patient participating in a disease course gradually returns to participating in a canonical life course.
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2010-03-31T04:51:11Z
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=35
life course
creation date: 2010-03-31T04:51:11Z
A processual entity which has as parts all the processes in which a given organism is participant.
Albert Goldfain
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=38
prognosis
A hypothesis about the course of a disease.
creation date: 2010-03-31T12:42:23Z
Albert Goldfain
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/issues/detail?id=35
acute disease course
creation date: 2010-07-19T11:57:44Z
Albert Goldfain
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/wiki/Meeting_notes_20100513
a disease course with a rapid onset but typical unfolding of signs and symptoms after this rapid onset.
inflammation process
http://code.google.com/p/ogms/wiki/Meeting_notes_20100513
A process which is a response by an organism's tissues that is generally identified by swelling or localized pain
creation date: 2010-07-19T11:57:44Z
Albert Goldfain
health care process
A social process that has at least one human participant and that includes as parts the treatment, diagnosis, or prevention of disease or injury--or the following of instructions of another human for treatment, diagnosis, or prevention--of a participant in the process
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2011-02-21T09:57:44Z
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/a2dbc2ed1dff99d6
health care encounter
Albert Goldfain
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/a2dbc2ed1dff99d6
creation date: 2011-02-21T09:57:44Z
A temporally-connected health care process that has as participants an organization or person realizing the health care provider role and a person realizing the patient role. The health care provider role and patient are realized during the health care encounter
hospitalization
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/a2dbc2ed1dff99d6
Albert Goldfain
creation date: 2011-02-21T09:57:44Z
TODO
outpatient encounter
creation date: 2011-02-21T09:57:44Z
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/a2dbc2ed1dff99d6
Albert Goldfain
TODO
inpatient encounter
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/a2dbc2ed1dff99d6
creation date: 2011-02-21T09:57:44Z
Albert Goldfain
TODO
ED encounter
Albert Goldfain
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/a2dbc2ed1dff99d6
TODO
creation date: 2011-02-21T09:57:44Z
injury
Albert Goldfain
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/ca0ad373f27774c5
A part of an organism that has undergone a change in structural integrity and has a higher chance of dysfunction or causing dysfunction in another structure.
At the scale of organism (as opposed to the cellular scale or the population scale), an injury is typically the result of a catastrophic event. Consider the implications of making 'injury' a subtype of 'disorder'.
creation date: 2011-09-20T09:57:44Z
prophylaxis
Albert Goldfain
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/e42bde79218ee34e
A planned process that has the objective to reduce the risk of acquiring one or more disorders.
Whether or not 'prophylaxis' and 'treatment' classes are disjoint is an open question.
creation date: 2011-09-20T09:57:44Z
diagnostic process
Albert Goldfain
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/2a7008f311fac766/e7de486c94dfd82e
An interpretive process that has as input a clinical picture of a given patient and as output an assertion (diagnostic statement) to the effect that the patient has a disease of such and such a type.
creation date: 2011-09-20T09:57:44Z
2009-08-07