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Table 1 Definitions imported from OGMS to IDO Core

From: The Infectious Disease Ontology in the age of COVID-19

OGMS Term

Definition

disease

Disposition to undergo pathogenic processes that exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.

disease course

Totality of all processes through which a given disease instance is realized.

disorder

Material entity which is clinically abnormal and part of an extended organism; disorders are the physical basis of disease.

symptom

Process experienced by the patient, which can only be experienced by the patient, that is hypothesized to be clinically relevant.