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From: An ontological modeling approach for abnormal states and its application in the medical domain

Figure 4

Examples of hypertrophy constituted of causal chains. This figure shows two different uses of cardiac hypertrophy. Each cardiac hypertrophy is red. One usage is a constituent of a causal chain of the hypertensive heart disease in the cardiovascular department (upper figure), and the other is a constituent of a glycogenesis type II disease (Pompe disease) in the metabolic disease department shown below (A core causal chain of each disease is yellow).

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