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Table 4 General diagnostic criteria of functional anatomical entities

From: Anatomy and the type concept in biology show that ontologies must be adapted to the diagnostic needs of research

Method

Recognition Criteria

differential diagnostic and empirical comparative approaches

If structure X (in the position Y and combined with Z) thus far always had the function A, then structure X (in an identical position Y and combination Z) serves as recognition criterion for the functional unit A.

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Journal of Biomedical Semantics

ISSN: 2041-1480