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"Inguinal canal anatomy and the complete course of an inguinal hernia", "Whole-person fertility, sexual function, gender identity or systemic diagnosis" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify the external sac and its wall separately from any testis within it; a testis is an enclosed organ, not the scrotum itself.", "Use anatomical position and continuity with surrounding tissues to distinguish the scrotal sac from the penis, adjacent perineal skin and inguinal region.", "Distinguish a local swelling from the scrotum containing or underlying it; record the swelling's tissue of origin as unresolved when evidence is insufficient.", "Check developmental and surgical context before identifying atypical external genital tissue or a reconstructed sac solely from appearance.", "Do not require two palpable testes to recognise a scrotum; establish sac identity and contents separately." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Species and developmental context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": 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internal organ temperature." }, { "name": "Scrotal position and wall tension", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed dependent position, folds and apparent tension, with posture and thermal context", "why_it_matters": "Captures changing configuration rather than treating a single appearance as fixed anatomy." }, { "name": "Modification history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked injuries, operations, reconstructions, implants or devices; date and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Explains altered boundaries, contents and constraints on examination or care." } ], "affordances": [ "Document scrotal appearance and reported symptoms using a consented observation method.", "Compare scrotal dimensions, contour and surface condition across observations with matched context.", "Associate each compartment with separately modelled contents and indicate uncertainty in localisation.", "Record environmental or positional context when assessing changes in scrotal configuration.", "Route unresolved scrotal findings for qualified assessment using an applicable clinical protocol.", "Record the target, consent and authorised instructions for scrotum-directed examination, protection or care." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "gray", "title": "Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (scrotum and testis)", "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/", "what_it_supports": "Anatomical definition and layers", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "scrotal-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Scrotal identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which anatomical sac is being modelled and where its ownership ends.", "rationale": "A scrotum must remain distinguishable from its contents, neighbouring genital structures and local swellings.", "layers": [ { "id": "anatomical-recognition", "name": "Anatomical recognition", "description": "Identifies the sac within the subject's anatomical context.", "findings": [ { "id": "sac-identification", "name": "Sac identification", "description": "Record the landmarks and contextual evidence supporting identification as a scrotum.", "questions": [ { "text": "What position, tissue continuity and landmarks identify this structure as the scrotal sac?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sac-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which species, developmental context or surgical record supports that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sac-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-boundaries", "name": "Ownership boundaries", "description": "Separates the wall and sac from enclosed and adjacent structures.", "findings": [ { "id": "wall-versus-contents", "name": "Wall versus contents", "description": "Assign observations to the sac, an enclosed structure or an unresolved location.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the observation concern scrotal skin, deeper wall tissue, an enclosed structure or an uncertain location?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "wall-versus-contents-q01" }, { "text": "Where does the affected area extend into penile, perineal or inguinal anatomy?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "wall-versus-contents-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wall-and-compartment-anatomy", "name": "Wall and compartment anatomy", "description": "Records the sac's surface, wall and internal partitioning as actually established.", "rationale": "Surface appearance alone cannot establish deeper tissue involvement or compartment anatomy.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-and-wall", "name": "Surface and wall", "description": "Localises scrotal skin features and wall findings.", "findings": [ { "id": "localised-wall-observation", "name": "Localised wall observation", "description": "Describe each wall finding with a reproducible anatomical location and observation depth.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where on the scrotum are folds, scars, lesions, wounds or other surface changes observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "localised-wall-observation-q01" }, { "text": "What examination or imaging evidence establishes whether a finding extends beneath the skin?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "localised-wall-observation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "partition-and-laterality", "name": "Partition and laterality", "description": "Records midline landmarks, compartments and side assignments without inventing unseen anatomy.", "findings": [ { "id": "compartment-localisation", "name": "Compartment localisation", "description": "Establish how observations are assigned to a side, the midline or multiple compartments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which external midline landmarks or internal partitions have actually been identified?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "compartment-localisation-q01" }, { "text": "Is the finding confined to one side, centred at the midline or extending across an established partition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "compartment-localisation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contents-and-support-relations", "name": "Contents and support 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"Examination involves intimate anatomy, while prior procedures can alter both interpretation and permissible care.", "layers": [ { "id": "consented-observation", "name": "Consented observation", "description": "Makes the method, consent and limits of a scrotal examination explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-authority-and-limits", "name": "Observation authority and limits", "description": "Distinguish consented observation from conclusions requiring another examination method or qualified examiner.", "questions": [ { "text": "What consent covers the proposed scrotal examination, intimate image capture and subsequent use of the record?", "kind": "action", "id": "observation-authority-and-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Which scrotal features can the available method establish, and which remain unassessed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observation-authority-and-limits-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "modified-anatomy-and-care", "name": "Modified anatomy and care", "description": "Connects 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a scrotum 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 scrotum, 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 scrotum, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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"description": "What a scrotum is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a scrotum, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a scrotum, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a scrotum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a scrotum is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a scrotum, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a scrotum, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a scrotum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a scrotum is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a scrotum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a scrotum, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a scrotum, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a scrotum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a scrotum is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a scrotum, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a scrotum, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a scrotum 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 scrotum 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 scrotum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a scrotum, 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 scrotum, 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 scrotum 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 scrotum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a scrotum 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 scrotum, 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 scrotum, 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 scrotum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What scrotum is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does scrotum perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise scrotum, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How scrotum is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does scrotum have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does scrotum need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about scrotum is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about scrotum hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern scrotum, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a scrotum 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 scrotum and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a scrotum, 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 scrotum, 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 scrotum 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 scrotum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a scrotum, 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 scrotum, 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 scrotum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }