{ "model": { "rank": 9855, "code": "thing-q216211", "model_id": "vr.tr.hypertrophy", "name": "hypertrophy", "purpose": "Let an agent explain hypertrophy and distinguish it from hyperplasia and from atrophy, relay physiological and clinical examples in general terms, and route personal training or medical questions to professionals.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q216211/", "tier": 2, "score": 46, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "atypical lobular breast hyperplasia", "urothelial hyperplasia", "usual ductal breast hyperplasia", "atypical endometrial hyperplasia", "complex endometrial hyperplasia", "pneumocytic hyperplasia", "Neuroendocrine hyperplasia", "macrophallism", "hyperplasia", "inflammatory hyperplasia", "crypt hyperplasia", "steatopygia", "Mesothelial hyperplasia", "Atypical hyperplasia", 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"0.2.0-wave.3", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q216211/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.hypertrophy", "name": "hypertrophy", "purpose": "Let an agent explain hypertrophy and distinguish it from hyperplasia and from atrophy, relay physiological and clinical examples in general terms, and route personal training or medical questions to professionals.", "definition": "The enlargement of an organ or tissue through an increase in the size of its cells, as in muscle growth from training or thickening of the heart wall under load, distinct from hyperplasia, which is an increase in cell number; hypertrophy can be physiological, as an adaptation, or pathological, as in cardiac disease.", "what_it_is_for": "Not for anything in itself; an adaptive or pathological tissue change.", "affordances": [ "explain the mechanism and kinds", "distinguish hypertrophy from hyperplasia and atrophy", "relay examples in muscle, heart and other organs", "route personal questions to professionals" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Increase in cell size, not number", "Physiological or pathological", "Reversible in many cases", "Triggered by load, hormones or disease" ], "appearance": "Not visible as a process; seen as enlargement of a muscle or organ on examination or imaging.", "visual_identification": [ "Enlargement by cell size", "Physiological in trained muscle, pathological in overloaded heart", "Hyperplasia increases cell number; atrophy is shrinkage" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "skeletal muscle hypertrophy from training", "cardiac hypertrophy, physiological and pathological", "compensatory hypertrophy of organs", "hypertrophy in smooth muscle such as the uterus in pregnancy", "hyperplasia as the related but distinct process" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "tissue growth", "why": "a change in tissue size" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "hyperplasia", "why": "increase in cell number" }, { "relation": "is the opposite of", "target": "atrophy", "why": "decrease in size" }, { "relation": "occurs in", "target": "muscle", "why": "a main example" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D006984", "note": "hypertrophy" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Clinical guidelines on cardiac hypertrophy", "Exercise science standards for training studies" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Pathological cardiac hypertrophy leading to heart failure", "Confusing hypertrophy with hyperplasia", "Agents giving personal training or medical advice" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "concept", "name": "Concept", "description": "What hypertrophy is.", "rationale": "Definition.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is hypertrophy, and how does it differ from hyperplasia and atrophy?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about hypertrophy or about a hyperplasia condition?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mechanism", "name": "Mechanism", "description": "Mechanism.", "findings": [ { "id": "mechanism-finding", "name": "Mechanism", "description": "Mechanism.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do cells enlarge in response to load, hormones or disease?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits cell growth?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "examples", "name": "Examples", "description": "Where it occurs.", "rationale": "Examples.", "layers": [ { "id": "muscle", "name": "Muscle", "description": "Skeletal muscle.", "findings": [ { "id": "muscle-finding", "name": "Muscle", "description": "Muscle.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does training produce muscle hypertrophy, according to exercise science?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user asking for a personal training plan, which needs a professional?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "heart", "name": "Heart", "description": "Cardiac hypertrophy.", "findings": [ { "id": "heart-finding", "name": "Heart", "description": "Heart.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy differ, in general terms?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user asking about their own heart, which needs a clinician?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "measure", "name": "Measure", "description": "Assessment.", "rationale": "Measurement.", "layers": [ { "id": "assessment", "name": "Assessment", "description": "Assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "assessment-finding", "name": "Assessment", "description": "Assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is hypertrophy measured in muscle and organs, from imaging to histology?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "Which methods are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "clinical", "name": "Clinical", "description": "Clinical significance.", "findings": [ { "id": "clinical-finding", "name": "Clinical", "description": "Clinical.", "questions": [ { "text": "When is hypertrophy a sign of disease, in general terms from guidelines?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific condition?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "study", "name": "Study", "description": "Research and teaching.", "rationale": "Study.", "layers": [ { "id": "research", "name": "Research", "description": "Research.", "findings": [ { "id": "research-finding", "name": "Research", "description": "Research.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is known about signalling pathways and reversibility, with findings attributed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "teach", "name": "Teach", "description": "Teaching.", "findings": [ { "id": "teach-finding", "name": "Teach", "description": "Teaching.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is hypertrophy taught in physiology and pathology?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which misconceptions arise?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should cardiac and muscle hypertrophy be separate entries?", "How should clinical guidelines be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases for hyperplasia conditions, which are a different process; should they be split off?" ], "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 hypertrophy, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain hypertrophy and distinguish it from hyperplasia and from atrophy, relay physiological and clinical examples in general terms, and route personal training or medical questions to professionals.", "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: atypical lobular breast hyperplasia, urothelial hyperplasia, usual ductal breast hyperplasia, atypical endometrial hyperplasia, complex endometrial hyperplasia, pneumocytic hyperplasia, Neuroendocrine hyperplasia, macrophallism, hyperplasia, inflammatory hyperplasia, crypt hyperplasia, steatopygia.", "23 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 46 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 hypertrophy, 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": [ "atypical lobular breast hyperplasia", "urothelial hyperplasia", "usual ductal breast hyperplasia", "atypical endometrial hyperplasia", "complex endometrial hyperplasia", "pneumocytic hyperplasia", "Neuroendocrine hyperplasia", "macrophallism", "hyperplasia", "inflammatory hyperplasia", "crypt hyperplasia", "steatopygia" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 46 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 23 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 hypertrophy from another, and a hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy?", "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 hypertrophy?", "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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy 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 hypertrophy is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy, 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 hypertrophy 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 } } } }