Table 1 Examples of pathology term qualifiers now incorporated into PATO
From: The mouse pathology ontology, MPATH; structure and applications
Qualifier | PATO | Class name | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
Severity | 0000461 | Normal | No lesions |
| Â | 0000394 | Mild | Lesion dependent; often size, number and characteristics. |
| Â | 0000395 | Moderate | |
| Â | 0000465 | Marked | |
| Â | 0000396 | Severe | |
Duration | 0002387 | Per-acute | Extremely acute and aggressive |
| Â | 0000389 | Acute | Beginning abruptly with marked intensity |
| Â | 0002091 | Subacute | Between acute and chronic |
| Â | 0001863 | Chronic | Slow progress and long continuance |
| Â | 0002387 | Chronic-active | Coexistence of chronic process and superimposed acute process |
Distribution | 0000627 | Focal | Single well delineated lesion |
| Â | 0002388 | Focally extensive | Single lesion with expansion into surrounding tissue |
| Â | 0001791 | Multifocal | Multiple lesions |
| Â | 0002389 | Multifocal to coalescing | Multiple lesions some interconnecting with each other |
| Â | 0000330 | Random | No appreciable pattern |
| Â | 0001566 | Diffuse | Not circumscribed or limited |
| Â | 0000635 | Generalized | Affecting all regions without specificity of distribution |
| Â | 0000634 | Unilateral | Confined to one side only |
| Â | 0000618 | Bilateral | Involving both sides |
| Â | 0002389 | Segmental | Relating to a segment |