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"scope_statement": "This model owns the optic nerve registered as vr.tr.optic-nerve in PHY / PHY.OBJ, including its continuity from retinal ganglion-cell axons at the optic nerve head to the optic chiasm, its segment-specific supporting anatomy, and evidence about its condition; species and laterality must be explicit.", "in_scope": [ "Identity, species, laterality, and anatomical continuity of an individual optic nerve", "Optic nerve head and intraorbital, intracanalicular, and intracranial segments", "Axonal organization, myelination, supporting tissues, and relations to surrounding sheaths", "Transmission of retinal signals and evidence of impaired conduction", "Observed structural changes, functional deficits, and their evolution" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The retina as a complete sensory tissue, including photoreceptor function", "Optic chiasm, optic tracts, and downstream visual processing structures", "Oculomotor, trochlear, and abducens nerves and their control of eye movements", "Glaucoma, optic neuritis, and other diseases as independent condition models", "Imaging devices, examination procedures, and treatment protocols" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Trace whether the structure connects the optic nerve head to the optic chiasm; a pathway continuing beyond the chiasm belongs to the optic tract.", "Establish that its axons originate from retinal ganglion cells rather than motor neurons supplying extraocular muscles.", "Distinguish the optic nerve head visible at the fundus from the full nerve extending behind the globe.", "Separate neural tissue from its surrounding sheath when interpreting a diameter, lesion, or enlargement.", "Recognize its central nervous system tissue organization rather than assuming the architecture and regenerative behavior of a typical peripheral nerve." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Organism and laterality", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Species; left, right, or unresolved; organism identifier", "why_it_matters": 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structure to visual function and flag unexplained disagreement.", "Identify missing evidence needed to distinguish neural tissue changes from sheath or adjacent orbital changes.", "Support referral for qualified assessment when documented findings indicate possible optic nerve dysfunction.", "Link the nerve to separately modeled conditions and interventions while preserving uncertainty about causation." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "anatomical-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Anatomical identity and boundaries", "description": "Identifies which optic nerve is represented and where its constituent regions begin and end.", "rationale": "Confusion between the nerve head, retrobulbar nerve, sheath, and optic tract causes incorrect attribution of evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "organism-and-eye-association", "name": "Organism and eye association", "description": "Anchors the nerve to an organism and its originating eye.", "findings": [ { "id": "nerve-identity", 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recorded boundary enclose neural tissue, the sheath complex, or both?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observed-anatomical-extent-q02" }, { "text": "What landmark separates the observed nerve from the optic chiasm or adjacent retina?", "kind": "definition", "id": "observed-anatomical-extent-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "axonal-and-supporting-anatomy", "name": "Axonal and supporting anatomy", "description": "Represents the nerve's axonal substrate and the local anatomy that supports or constrains it.", "rationale": "Axonal tissue, myelination, vascular supply, and confinement affect how optic nerve observations should be interpreted.", "layers": [ { "id": "axons-and-myelination", "name": "Axons and myelination", "description": "Describes retinal ganglion-cell axons and segment-dependent evidence about their supporting tissue.", "findings": [ { "id": "neural-tissue-integrity", "name": "Neural tissue integrity", "description": "Records evidence about axonal integrity and myelination without treating indirect markers as direct tissue counts.", "questions": [ { "text": "What direct or indirect evidence describes axonal preservation or loss in this nerve?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "neural-tissue-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "Which segment is assessed for myelination, and what method supports the assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "neural-tissue-integrity-q02" }, { "text": "Is the claimed axonal change observed in the nerve itself or inferred from retinal layer measurements?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "neural-tissue-integrity-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "vascular-and-confining-relations", "name": "Vascular and confining relations", "description": "Locates relevant blood supply, sheath relationships, and surrounding anatomical constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-support-and-constraint", "name": "Local support and constraint", "description": "Records segment-specific evidence of vascular compromise, compression, or altered sheath relationships.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which vascular or surrounding anatomical structures are implicated, and at what nerve segment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-support-and-constraint-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports compression or impaired perfusion rather than anatomical proximity alone?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "local-support-and-constraint-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "visual-signal-function", "name": "Visual signal function", "description": "Connects retinal signal transmission with observations that can support or challenge optic nerve localization.", "rationale": "Visual impairment does not by itself establish optic nerve dysfunction, and structural findings require functional context.", "layers": [ { "id": "afferent-function-observations", "name": "Afferent function observations", "description": "Links visual performance and pupillary observations to the assessed nerve.", "findings": [ { "id": "functional-profile", "name": "Functional profile", "description": "Retains the pattern of 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[ { "id": "observed-structural-abnormality", "name": "Observed structural abnormality", "description": "Records morphology and imaging observations separately from diagnostic interpretations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What swelling, pallor, rim or cup changes, caliber changes, or imaging signal abnormalities were observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-structural-abnormality-q01" }, { "text": "Which acquisition artifacts, anatomical variants, or reference-population limitations could explain the observation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-structural-abnormality-q02" }, { "text": "Does the finding involve the optic disc surface, deeper neural tissue, or surrounding sheath?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observed-structural-abnormality-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "trajectory-and-assessment-actions", "name": "Trajectory and assessment actions", "description": "Evaluates change over time and links unresolved concerns to appropriate qualified review.", "findings": [ { "id": 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"parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a optic nerve is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a optic nerve, 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and 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actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a optic nerve 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 optic nerve is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a optic nerve, 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a optic nerve, 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a optic nerve 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a optic nerve, 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve 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 optic nerve is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a optic nerve, 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 optic nerve, 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 optic nerve 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 } } } }