Class: Description

A description is language entity in which elements of a language (formal or natural) are used to characterize an entity.

URI: sio:Description

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Parents

  • is_a: LanguageEntity - A language entity implements some language specification for the visual interpretation and is part of some document.

Children

  • Annotation - An annotation is a written explanatory or critical description, or other in-context information (e.g., pattern, motif, link), that has been associated with data or other types of information.
  • Answer - An answer is a reply to a question.
  • Definition - A definition is a description that succintly characterizes an entity.
  • History - history is a sequence of past events.
  • Proposition - A proposition is a sentence expressing something true or false.
  • Specification - A specification is a description of the essential technical attributes/requirements for an object or procedure, and may be used to determine that the object / procedure meets its requirements/attributes.
  • Syndrome - A syndrome is composed of a set of several clinically recognizable features, signs (observed by someone other than the patient), symptoms (reported by the patient), phenomena or characteristics that often occur together.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Inherited from LanguageEntity:

  • hasCreator 0..1
    • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
    • Range: Entity

  • hasAttribute 0..1

    • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

    • Range: Entity

    • satisfies 0..1

    • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

    • Range: Description

    • isRelatedTo 0..1
    • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
    • Range: Entity
    • derivesInto 0..1

    • Description: a derives to b if and only if a or some part thereof is consumed in the formation of b.

    • Range: Object

    • isAnnotationOf 0..1

    • Description: is annotation of is a relation between some textual entity and the entity that it annotates.

    • Range: Entity