{ "model": { "rank": 3010, "code": "thing-q164655", "model_id": "vr.tr.abscess", "name": "abscess", "purpose": "Let an agent explain abscesses and where they occur in general terms, route symptoms and emergencies to care, describe treatment approaches with attribution, and advise against self-treatment.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q164655/", "tier": 2, "score": 92, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "epidural abscess", "scrotal abscess", "renal abscess", "periapical abscess", "parotid abscess", "abscess of prostate", "Cutaneous sinus of dental origin", "multiple abscesses", "prostate abscess", "hoof abscess", "Bezold's abscess", "Perinephric abscess", "peritonsillar abscess", "parapharyngeal abscess", "intracranial abscess", "splenic abscess", "lung abscess", "breast abscess", "tubo-ovarian abscess", "Cold abscess", "sole ulcer", "skin abscess", "dental abscess", "intra-abdominal abscess", "palmar abscess", "Munro's microabscess", "nasal septal abscess", "Paget's abscess", "retrotonsillar abscess", "Intraoral dental sinus", "periodontal abscess", "Phoenix abscess", "submucosal abscess" ], "aliasCount": 33, "merged": 33, "knownIn": 92, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.abscess", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q164655", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164655", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T23:17:24Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 2, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q164655", "registryId": "vr.tr.abscess", "name": "abscess", "version": "0.2.0-wave.2", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.QLT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q164655/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.abscess", "name": "abscess", "purpose": "Let an agent explain abscesses and where they occur in general terms, route symptoms and emergencies to care, describe treatment approaches with attribution, and advise against self-treatment.", "definition": "A localised collection of pus within tissue caused by infection, forming a walled cavity with swelling, redness, pain and sometimes fever, occurring in skin, teeth and gums, glands, organs such as the liver, kidneys and prostate, and around the spine; abscesses are diagnosed clinically and by imaging and usually treated by drainage with or without antibiotics, and some, such as epidural abscesses, are emergencies.", "what_it_is_for": "Localised collections of pus.", "affordances": [ "explain what an abscess is", "route symptoms and emergencies to care", "describe treatment approaches", "advise against self-treatment" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Pus collection", "Infection-driven", "Drainage-treated", "Site-specific severity" ], "appearance": "A swollen, red, painful lump, sometimes with a visible head of pus.", "visual_identification": [ "Walled collection of pus", "Skin, dental or internal", "A cyst is a fluid-filled sac not necessarily infected" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "skin and soft tissue abscesses", "dental abscesses such as periapical abscesses", "organ abscesses such as liver, renal and prostate", "gland abscesses such as parotid abscesses", "spinal and epidural abscesses" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "suppuration", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "general symptom", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "dermatitis", "why": "skin conditions" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "emergency department", "why": "acute care for severe abscesses" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Clinical guidelines for skin and soft tissue infection", "Antimicrobial stewardship rules", "Dental care standards" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Sepsis from untreated abscesses", "Self-lancing causing spread", "Agents diagnosing or prescribing" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "urgent", "name": "Urgent", "description": "When to seek care.", "rationale": "Routing.", "layers": [ { "id": "redflags", "name": "Red flags", "description": "Emergency signs.", "findings": [ { "id": "redflags-finding", "name": "Red flags", "description": "Red flags.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are there signs such as fever, spreading redness, severe pain, back pain with weakness or difficulty swallowing that need urgent care?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Should emergency services be called now?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assess", "name": "Assess", "description": "Getting assessed.", "findings": [ { "id": "assess-finding", "name": "Assess", "description": "Assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which abscesses need a clinician or dentist, and how are they assessed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user asking for a diagnosis, which needs a clinician?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What abscesses are.", "rationale": "General information.", "layers": [ { "id": "formation", "name": "Formation", "description": "How abscesses form.", "findings": [ { "id": "formation-finding", "name": "Formation", "description": "Formation.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does an abscess form from infection and the immune response?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which sites are common, and which are dangerous?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "types", "name": "Types", "description": "Kinds by site.", "findings": [ { "id": "types-finding", "name": "Types", "description": "Types.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do skin, dental, organ and spinal abscesses differ in cause and risk?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific abscess type?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "treat", "name": "Treat", "description": "Treatment.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "treatment", "name": "Treatment", "description": "Drainage and antibiotics.", "findings": [ { "id": "treatment-finding", "name": "Treatment", "description": "Treatment.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are abscesses treated by drainage and, when needed, antibiotics, according to guidelines?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Why should abscesses not be squeezed or lanced at home?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "aftercare", "name": "Aftercare", "description": "Aftercare and recurrence.", "findings": [ { "id": "aftercare-finding", "name": "Aftercare", "description": "Aftercare.", "questions": [ { "text": "What aftercare do guidelines advise, and what causes recurrent abscesses?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits recurrent conditions?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "learn", "name": "Learn", "description": "Prevention and teaching.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "prevent", "name": "Prevent", "description": "Prevention.", "findings": [ { "id": "prevent-finding", "name": "Prevent", "description": "Prevention.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can skin and dental abscesses be prevented, according to health bodies?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Who is at higher risk?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "teach", "name": "Teach", "description": "Teaching.", "findings": [ { "id": "teach-finding", "name": "Teach", "description": "Teaching.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can abscess management be taught in clinical education?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which misconceptions arise?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should each abscess site be a separate entry?", "How should guidelines be linked?", "How should urgent care be localised?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a abscess, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain abscesses and where they occur in general terms, route symptoms and emergencies to care, describe treatment approaches with attribution, and advise against self-treatment.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: epidural abscess, scrotal abscess, renal abscess, periapical abscess, parotid abscess, abscess of prostate, Cutaneous sinus of dental origin, multiple abscesses, prostate abscess, hoof abscess, Bezold's abscess, Perinephric abscess.", "33 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 92 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a abscess, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "epidural abscess", "scrotal abscess", "renal abscess", "periapical abscess", "parotid abscess", "abscess of prostate", "Cutaneous sinus of dental origin", "multiple abscesses", "prostate abscess", "hoof abscess", "Bezold's abscess", "Perinephric abscess" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 92 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 33 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one abscess from another, and a abscess from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a abscess, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a abscess, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a abscess is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a abscess, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a abscess, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a abscess is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a abscess sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a abscess, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a abscess, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a abscess is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a abscess from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a abscess, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a abscess, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a abscess is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a abscess passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a abscess between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a abscess, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a abscess, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a abscess is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a abscess, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a abscess is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a abscess, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a abscess, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a abscess is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What abscess is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of abscess are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is abscess operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of abscess and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of abscess?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as abscess?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a abscess came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a abscess and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a abscess, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a abscess, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a abscess is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a abscess is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a abscess, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a abscess, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a abscess is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }