growth
Let an agent explain growths as abnormal tissue proliferation in general terms, describe kinds such as polyps and exostoses and how they are assessed, route personal medical questions to clinicians, and separate this sense from other meanings of growth.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a growth is.
Concept
Concept and kinds.
Concept
Concept.
- What is a growth in the pathological sense, and how do polyps, benign and malignant tumours and exostoses differ? definition
- Is the user asking about their own growth, which needs a clinician? boundary
Senses
Senses of growth.
Senses
Senses.
- How does this sense differ from biological development and economic growth? definition
- Which sense of growth is meant? boundary
Assess Assessment and treatment.
Assessment
How growths are assessed.
Assessment
Assessment.
- How do clinicians assess growths through examination, imaging and biopsy, in general terms? provenance
- Is urgent assessment needed, for example with rapid change or bleeding? boundary
Treatment
Treatment.
Treatment
Treatment.
- How are polyps and other growths removed or monitored, according to guidelines? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific procedure? action
Science Biology and classification.
Biology
Biology of proliferation.
Biology
Biology.
- What biological processes lead to abnormal tissue proliferation? provenance
- Which entry fits cell biology? action
Classification
Classification.
Classification
Classification.
- How are growths classified in pathology? provenance
- Which entry fits pathology? action
Learn Screening and teaching.
Screening
Screening.
Screening
Screening.
- How do screening programmes detect growths such as polyps early? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can pathological growth be taught? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- noun.state
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Facets: substance
- abstract
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- exostosis, polyp, polypus, adenomatous polyp, sessile polyp, pedunculated polyp, peduncle, tumor, tumour, neoplasm, acanthoma, skin tumor
What it is Filled
In pathology, an abnormal proliferation of tissue, as in a tumour, polyp, exostosis or other mass, which may be benign or malignant, sessile or pedunculated, and which is investigated by examination, imaging and biopsy; in this sense growth denotes the pathological state of excess tissue and is distinct from normal growth of organisms, economic growth and other senses.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain growths as abnormal tissue proliferation in general terms, describe kinds such as polyps and exostoses and how they are assessed, route personal medical questions to clinicians, and separate this sense from other meanings of growth.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Abnormal proliferation
- Benign or malignant
- Requires assessment
- Pathological sense
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Tell a person a growth is benign or malignant without a clinician's diagnosis.
- Recommend unproven remedies for a growth.
- Share a person's diagnosis without consent.
- Discourage a biopsy or examination recommended by a clinician.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision on biopsy, removal or treatment.
May
- Share general information about pathological growths and why examination matters.
- Help a patient keep track of appointments and findings with consent.
Moral aspects Filled
- Fear of a growth, and delay in seeking care, both harm patients.
- Health information is highly sensitive.
Who is affected
- Patients
- Families
Owners Filled
Steward
The patient, with the treating clinician answering for diagnosis.
Master systems
- Patient health records
- Cancer registries
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-14085287-n - registry parent class
related
- pathological state - category
- endoscopy - a method for finding polyps
- stomach cancer - a malignant growth
- symptom - growths as clinical findings
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.growth-state
- Open English WordNet: oewn-14257556-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Abnormal tissue mass
- Polyp, tumour, exostosis
- Normal growth is development; economic growth is unrelated
- Masses, lumps or protrusions of tissue.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the pathological sense
- describe kinds and assessment generally
- route personal questions
- separate other senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents assessing a personal lump or growth
- Delay in seeking assessment
- Confusing senses of growth
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines for assessment of masses
- Pathology classification of tumours
- Screening programme rules
Context of use required Filled
- Abnormal proliferation of tissue.
- polyps, sessile and pedunculated
- benign tumours
- malignant tumours
- exostoses and bony growths
- skin growths
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-14257556-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: growth - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should polyps be a separate entry?
- How should guidelines be linked?
- How should other senses be separated?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-growth-state/spec.json