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vr.tr.muscle · thing-q7365

Let an agent handle muscles by type, location, function, fitness and injury, referring medical questions to professionals.

Thing Registry Physical world and living systems PHY.LIV
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Type Which muscle.

Kind

Skeletal, cardiac, smooth.

Kind

Muscle type.

  1. Which type of muscle is meant? definition
  2. Which named muscle? definition

Location

Anatomy.

Location

Location.

  1. Where is it, and what does it attach to? definition
  2. Which nerve supplies it? definition
Function What it does.

Action

Movement.

Action

Action.

  1. What movement does it produce? definition
  2. Which muscles work with or against it? definition

Physiology

Contraction.

Physiology

Physiology.

  1. How does it contract? definition
  2. What fuels it? definition
Fitness Training.

Strength

Training.

Strength

Strength training.

  1. What training builds strength safely? action
  2. What do activity guidelines recommend? provenance

Recovery

Rest.

Recovery

Recovery.

  1. How long should recovery take? measurement
  2. What helps? action
Health Injury and disease.

Injury

Strains.

Injury

Injury.

  1. Is this a minor strain or does it need assessment? boundary
  2. Which warning signs need urgent care? boundary

Disease

Conditions.

Disease

Muscle conditions.

  1. Could weakness indicate a condition needing a doctor? boundary
  2. Who should be consulted? action

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Physical world and living systems
Entry kind
thing
Plane
PHY
Domain
PHY.LIV
Other names and narrower kinds
striated muscle tissue, cardiac muscles, striated visceral muscle, striated cutaneous muscle, skeletal muscle tissue, cardiac muscle tissue of atrium, conducting tissue of heart, cardiac muscle tissue of ventricle, cardiac muscle tissue of auricle, cardiac muscle tissue of papillary muscle, cardiac muscle tissue of trabecula carnea, cardiac muscle tissue of septomarginal trabecula

What it is Filled

A soft tissue made of contractile cells that produces force and motion; the three types are skeletal (striated, voluntary), cardiac (striated, involuntary) and smooth muscle.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent handle muscles by type, location, function, fitness and injury, referring medical questions to professionals.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Contractile tissue
  • Three types
  • Skeletal is voluntary, cardiac and smooth are involuntary
  • Mass declines with age without exercise

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Diagnose muscle injury or disease in place of a qualified clinician.
  • Recommend substances that promise muscle growth without medical oversight.
  • Push a person to exercise through pain or warning signs of injury.
  • Share a person's body or fitness data without consent.

Only with a human decision

  • Starting a rehabilitation or training plan for someone with an injury or illness.

May

  • Explain how muscles work and what common muscle conditions are in general terms.
  • Record exercise or rehabilitation data a person has chosen to track.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Body image pressure around muscle can lead to harmful substance use and eating disorders.
  • Health data about a person's body is sensitive.

Who is affected

  • People in training or rehabilitation
  • Patients with muscle disease

Owners Filled

Steward

Nobody owns it; a person's own body is theirs, and clinicians answer for care.

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q112826975 - registry parent class
  • Q27062223 - registry parent class
  • Q28843519 - registry parent class
  • Q66545292 - registry parent class

related

  • tissue and anatomical structure - anatomy
  • bone and joint - function
  • nerve - control
  • human body - body

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.muscle
  • Wikidata: Q7365 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7365)
  • FMA or Uberon id: ontology identifiers anatomy terms

Direct properties required Filled

  • share of body mass (skeletal): 30-40 percent - adults, varies
  • number of skeletal muscles: about 600 muscles - human

Recognition required Filled

  • Striated or smooth under the microscope
  • Named muscles such as biceps
  • Muscle tissue types are separate entries
  • Red striated fibres in skeletal and cardiac muscle; smooth muscle lines organs.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • train and strengthen them
  • stretch and warm up
  • recover from strain
  • see a professional for injury or weakness

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Strains and tears
  • Unexplained weakness or pain needing medical assessment
  • Rhabdomyolysis after extreme exertion

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Terminologia Anatomica
  • Physical activity guidelines such as WHO

Context of use required Filled

  • Movement, posture, heart pumping, digestion and heat production.
  • skeletal muscle
  • cardiac muscle
  • smooth muscle
  • named muscles by region

Sources Filled

  1. Wikidata item Q7365: muscle - identity and sense of the item
  2. Wikipedia: Muscle - general description of the item

Open questions

  • Should muscle types be separate entries?
  • How should named muscles be linked?
  • How should medical symptoms be routed?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q7365/spec.json