head
Let an agent explain the head as an anatomical region in humans and animals, relay structure and function from anatomical sources, describe medical and cultural aspects in general terms, and route personal medical questions to clinicians.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What the head is.
Anatomy
Anatomy.
Anatomy
Anatomy.
- What structures make up the human head, from skull and brain to sense organs? definition
- Is the question about the human head, an animal head or another sense? boundary
Animals
Animal heads.
Animals
Animals.
- How do heads differ across vertebrates and insects, and what is cephalisation? definition
- Which entry fits the specific animal? action
Clinical Health.
Injury
Head injury.
Injury
Injury.
- What are the warning signs after a head injury, per emergency guidance? action
- Is the user describing a head injury, which needs urgent medical assessment? boundary
Conditions
Conditions.
Conditions
Conditions.
- What common conditions affect the head, in general terms? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Measure Measurement and protection.
Anthropometry
Measurements.
Anthropometry
Anthropometry.
- How are head size and shape measured for growth monitoring and product design? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Protection
Head protection.
Protection
Protection.
- How do helmets protect the head, and what standards apply? provenance
- Which entry fits helmet? action
Context Culture and food.
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How does the head figure in art, expression, symbolism and idiom? provenance
- Which entry fits portrait? action
Food
Animal heads as food.
Food
Food.
- How are animal heads such as fish and eel heads used in cuisines? provenance
- Which entry fits offal? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- eel head, Female head, human head, insect head, beheaded head, bald head, hare's head, bird's head, boar's head, capon head, chicken head, crayfish head
What it is Filled
The uppermost or foremost part of the body of humans and many animals, containing the brain, the mouth and the main sense organs of sight, hearing, smell and taste, supported in vertebrates by the skull and in insects forming a distinct capsule with antennae and compound eyes; the human head is central to identity, expression and communication, and the term extends to animal heads used as food, such as eel head, and to descriptive senses such as a bald head.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the head as an anatomical region in humans and animals, relay structure and function from anatomical sources, describe medical and cultural aspects in general terms, and route personal medical questions to clinicians.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Brain housing
- Sense organ concentration
- Face and expression
- Cephalisation
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Give instructions for striking, restraining or applying force to a person's head.
- Give personal diagnosis or treatment advice for a head injury in place of a clinician.
- Treat a head injury as minor because the person seems fine shortly afterwards.
- Analyse photographs of people's heads to infer character, intelligence or ancestry.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision about moving or treating a person with a suspected head or neck injury.
May
- Explain the anatomy of the head in humans and animals from reference sources.
- Urge immediate medical assessment after any head injury with loss of consciousness, vomiting or confusion.
- Support clinicians and anatomists with reference information at their request.
Moral aspects Filled
- Head injuries can worsen hours after the event, so advice that reassures too early is dangerous.
- Inferring traits from skull or facial shape is a discredited practice with a racist history.
Who is affected
- Injured people
- Athletes in contact sports
- People subject to facial or skull analysis
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; the treating clinician answers for care of a patient's head injury.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q112826975 - registry parent class
- Q17781690 - registry parent class
related
- cardinal body part - in registry terms
- particular anatomical entity - in registry terms
- neck - in vertebrates
contains
- brain - within the skull
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.head
- Wikidata: Q23640 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23640)
- TA2: caput Terminologia Anatomica
- MeSH: D006257 head
Direct properties required Filled
- adult human head mass: about 4.5-5 kg
- human head circumference: about 55-58 cm - adult average
Recognition required Filled
- Body part containing brain and sense organs
- Human head, animal heads, insect head capsule
- The skull is the bone; the face is the front; the neck connects it to the trunk
- The rounded top of the body bearing the face, eyes, ears, nose and mouth.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain anatomy and function
- describe animal heads
- relay medical and cultural aspects
- route personal questions
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Head injury
- Agents giving personal medical advice
- Confusing head with skull or face
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines on head injury
- Helmet and head protection standards
- Anthropometric standards for head measurements
Context of use required Filled
- Housing the brain and sense organs.
- human head
- heads of other vertebrates
- insect and arthropod heads
- animal heads as food such as eel head and fish head
- head as a unit in counting livestock
- descriptive senses such as bald head
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q23640: head - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Head - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should skull and face be the primary linked entries?
- How should anatomical references be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming animal and descriptive senses; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q23640/spec.json