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cavernosa, paired crura on the ischiopubic rami, and - in contemporary descriptions - the vestibular bulbs, with no urethral lumen and a primary role in sexual sensation.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, anatomical extent, variation, sensory and erectile state, tissue condition, and intervention history of an individual clitoris, while linking to the person and neighbouring anatomical structures.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of the clitoral glans, body and paired crura, including uncertainty about their observed boundaries", "Clitoral dimensions, configuration and variation, with measurement method and anatomical landmarks", "Reported sensation, sensitivity, discomfort and changes from the person's baseline", "Observed tissue condition and changes associated with injury, disease or previous procedures", "Consent, evidence and clinical context governing examination or intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The vulva as a whole, including the labia and their independent conditions", "The vagina, urethra and their respective functions or disorders", "The clitoral hood as a separate tissue structure, except for its relationship to glans coverage and accessibility", "Whole-person sexual function, orgasm, preferences, identity or relationship experience", "Systemic endocrine, neurological or vascular conditions, except as linked explanations requiring separate assessment", "Vestibular bulbs as independently identified structures, pending an explicit anatomical boundary convention" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Distinguish the clitoral glans from its overlying hood: the visible tissue covering the glans is not itself the glans.", "Distinguish the glans from the urethral opening using anatomical relationships and, where appropriate, direct identification; the urethral opening is a separate structure.", "Distinguish the whole clitoris from its externally visible portion: identifying the glans alone does not establish the condition or dimensions of the body and crura.", "Distinguish paired clitoral crura from adjacent vestibular bulbs using an explicitly named anatomical convention and suitable anatomical evidence.", "Distinguish anatomical identity from appearance-based assumptions: size, exposure or tissue alteration alone must not determine identity, pathology or the person's sex or gender." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identified anatomical component", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "glans | body | left crus | right crus | multiple components | component uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Localises evidence and prevents an observation of one part from becoming a claim about the whole organ." }, { "name": "Component dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm, with component, axis, landmarks, method, date and observation conditions; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison over time without relying on unqualified size labels or unsupported normality thresholds." }, { "name": "Relationship to clitoral hood", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "coverage and accessibility described under recorded observation conditions; not assessed permitted", "why_it_matters": "Separates glans condition from the effects of covering tissue and limits conclusions from external visibility." }, { "name": "Sensory experience", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "person-reported sensation, sensitivity or numbness, including location, context and change from baseline", "why_it_matters": "Records experience that cannot be established from appearance or inferred from anatomy." }, { "name": "Pain or discomfort", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported presence, location, onset, duration, triggers and optional named rating scale", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes symptoms from structural findings and supports assessment of change." }, { "name": "Engorgement or swelling", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported or observed change in fullness, with timing, persistence and context; cause unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Prevents transient erectile change and unexplained persistent swelling from being recorded as equivalent." }, { "name": "Tissue condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "described findings such as intact surface, lesion, bleeding, scar or suspected tissue loss; uncertainty and component required", "why_it_matters": "Supports local condition assessment without converting appearance into an unverified diagnosis." }, { "name": "Alteration history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "links to reported or documented injury, procedure or treatment events, with date, affected component and evidence status", "why_it_matters": "Explains possible changes while keeping historical claims distinct from present observations." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and annotate clitoral components using consented observations or existing clinical evidence.", "Record person-reported sensation and symptoms separately from examination or imaging findings.", "Compare component-specific measurements or symptoms across time when methods and conditions permit.", "Link local findings to relevant neighbouring anatomy, clinical assessments and documented interventions.", "Identify missing evidence and support referral for qualified assessment when symptoms or findings remain unexplained.", "Record the person's permission, limits and withdrawal of consent for a proposed examination or intervention." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "cleveland-clinic-clitoris", "title": "Clitoris: Anatomy, Location, Purpose & Conditions", "url": "https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/22823-clitoris", "what_it_supports": "Clinical description of external glans and hood versus internal body, crura, vestibular bulbs and root; everyday encounter of the organ.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "radiopaedia-clitoris", "title": "Clitoris", "url": "https://radiopaedia.org/articles/clitoris", "what_it_supports": "Radiologic anatomy: crura, corpora cavernosa, tunica albuginea, glans from vestibular bulbs, prepuce/frenulum; older versus newer status of the bulbs as part of the clitoris.", "url_status": "unverified" }, { "id": "kenhub-clitoris", "title": "Clitoris: Location, structure, diagram", "url": "https://www.kenhub.com/en/library/anatomy/clitoris", "what_it_supports": "Homology with the penis, absence of a urethral lumen, estimate that about four-fifths of the organ is internal, suspensory ligament, and typical glans length of 5-8 mm.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikipedia-clitoris", "title": "Clitoris", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoris", "what_it_supports": "Identifier table (TA98 A09.2.02.001, TA2 3565, FMA 9909, MeSH D002987), Latin/Greek names, genital-tubercle precursor, and named parts (glans, body, frenulum).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q873072", "title": "clitoris (Wikidata Q873072)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q873072", "what_it_supports": "Crosswalk of FMA 9909, TA98 A09.2.02.001, TA2 3565, MeSH D002987, ICD-11 XA4851 / Foundation 1730349811, UBERON 0002411, UMLS C0008984, Homosaurus homoit0000282.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ajog-terminology-2025", "title": "Recommended standardized terminology related to the clitoris and vestibular bulbs based on a structured medical literature review", "url": "https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(25)00403-X/fulltext", "what_it_supports": "Preferred Terminologia Anatomica codes for clitoris and parts; controversy over bulbs as clitoral versus vestibular; proposed terms clitoral root and clitoral-vestibular septum.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "longhurst-2024", "title": "Beyond the tip of the iceberg: A meta-analysis of the anatomy of the clitoris", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1002/ca.24113", "what_it_supports": "Pooled length and width of glans, body, crura, bulbs and prepuce, and glans-to-urethra distance, from MRI, ultrasound, cadaver and living-subject studies.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "jackson-2019-ajog", "title": "Anatomy, histology, and nerve density of clitoris and associated structures: clinical applications to vulvar surgery", "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002937819308440", "what_it_supports": "Cadaver dimensions of body, glans and crura; dorsal-nerve calibre and course; erectile tissue in body, crura and bulbs but not in the glans; surgical hazard to sensation.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "who-fgm-factsheet", "title": "Female genital mutilation (fact sheet)", "url": "https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/female-genital-mutilation", "what_it_supports": "WHO Types I-IV of FGM, including partial or total removal of the clitoral glans and/or prepuce; stated complications and the instruction that health workers must not perform FGM.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "frontiers-enlarged-clitoris-2017", "title": "Treatment of the Enlarged Clitoris", "url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pediatrics/articles/10.3389/fped.2017.00125/full", "what_it_supports": "Clitoromegaly mainly from CAH and other DSDs; hood-shape variants; reduced sensation after childhood clitoral surgery; Endocrine Society/Chicago-consensus threshold of <2 cm for postponing surgery.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "clitoral-identity-and-extent", "name": "Clitoral identity and extent", "description": "Establishes which tissue and components the record identifies as clitoral.", "rationale": "The externally visible glans is only part of the organ, and adjacent tissues can be incorrectly included.", "layers": [ { "id": "component-identification", "name": "Component identification", "description": "Locates identified parts and records the basis for identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "identified-clitoral-components", "name": "Identified clitoral components", "description": "Records which components are identified, which are unassessed and how the identification was established.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record concern the glans, body, one or both crura, or the whole clitoris?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identified-clitoral-components-q01" }, { "text": "What examination, imaging, operative record or other evidence supports each component identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identified-clitoral-components-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-tissue-boundaries", "name": "Neighbouring tissue boundaries", "description": "Separates the clitoris from its covering tissues and adjacent structures.", "findings": [ { "id": "clitoral-boundary-convention", "name": "Clitoral boundary convention", "description": "Makes anatomical inclusion choices explicit, particularly for the hood and vestibular bulbs.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which anatomical convention defines the organ's extent, and how does it treat the vestibular bulbs?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "clitoral-boundary-convention-q01" }, { "text": "Are observations of the hood, labia or urethral opening attributed to those structures rather than to clitoral tissue?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "clitoral-boundary-convention-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "clitoral-form-and-variation", "name": "Clitoral form and variation", "description": "Records component-specific morphology and interpretable changes in appearance or dimensions.", "rationale": "Visibility, covering tissue and observation conditions can alter apparent size and prevent valid comparisons.", "layers": [ { "id": "component-morphology", "name": "Component morphology", "description": "Captures dimensions and configuration without assuming a universal normal appearance.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-clitoral-measurements", "name": "Qualified clitoral measurements", "description": "Associates each measurement with the exact component and method that produced it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which component, axis and anatomical landmarks were measured, in what units and by what method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-clitoral-measurements-q01" }, { "text": "What observation conditions, including hood coverage or engorgement where known, limit interpretation of the measurement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-clitoral-measurements-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "baseline-and-change", "name": "Baseline and change", "description": "Distinguishes an individual's established anatomy from newly reported or observed change.", "findings": [ { "id": "change-in-clitoral-form", "name": "Change in clitoral form", "description": "Records the timing and evidence for changes in size, configuration or exposure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the recorded appearance longstanding, newly noticed or demonstrably changed from an earlier observation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "change-in-clitoral-form-q01" }, { "text": "Are earlier and current observations sufficiently comparable to establish a change in clitoral tissue rather than visibility or measurement technique?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "change-in-clitoral-form-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "clitoral-sensation-and-tissue-state", "name": "Clitoral sensation and tissue state", "description": "Records subjective sensory experience alongside local erectile and tissue observations.", "rationale": "Appearance does not establish sensation, and changes in fullness require context before their significance can be assessed.", "layers": [ { "id": "sensory-and-pain-reports", "name": "Sensory and pain reports", "description": "Captures the person's account of clitoral sensation and discomfort.", "findings": [ { "id": "localised-sensory-experience", "name": "Localised sensory experience", "description": "Records location, timing and context of sensory change without inferring pleasure or whole-person sexual function.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sensation, numbness, sensitivity or pain does the person report, and where do they locate it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "localised-sensory-experience-q01" }, { "text": "When did it begin, under what circumstances does it occur, and how does it differ from their baseline?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "localised-sensory-experience-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "erectile-and-surface-observations", "name": "Erectile and surface observations", "description": "Documents changes in fullness and visible or otherwise assessed tissue condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "clitoral-tissue-state-evidence", "name": "Clitoral tissue state evidence", "description": "Separates direct observations, reported changes and proposed explanations for swelling or tissue abnormalities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which component shows altered fullness, swelling, a lesion, bleeding or scarring, and is this reported or directly observed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "clitoral-tissue-state-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What duration, associated symptoms and qualified assessment support distinguishing transient engorgement from another tissue change?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "clitoral-tissue-state-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "clitoral-alteration-and-care", "name": "Clitoral alteration and care", "description": "Connects prior tissue alteration and present care decisions to evidence and the person's consent.", "rationale": "Injury or procedures can affect components differently, while intimate examination requires explicit limits and cannot be justified by appearance alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "injury-and-procedure-history", "name": "Injury and procedure history", "description": "Records relevant events without assuming their extent or sensory consequences.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-clitoral-alteration", "name": "Documented clitoral alteration", "description": "Links reported or documented injury, cutting, surgery or treatment to the components known to be affected.", "questions": [ { "text": "What alteration is reported or documented, when did it occur, and which clitoral components are known to have been affected?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-clitoral-alteration-q01" }, { "text": "Which claims about remaining tissue, scarring or sensory effects are established, and which remain unassessed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-clitoral-alteration-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consented-assessment-and-intervention", "name": "Consented assessment and intervention", "description": "Defines the purpose, permission and appropriate clinical responsibility for proposed actions.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-clitoral-care-action", "name": "Permitted clitoral care action", "description": "Records what assessment or intervention is proposed, why it is relevant and what the person has authorised.", "questions": [ { "text": "What specific symptom or unresolved anatomical finding would the proposed examination or intervention address, and who is qualified to perform it?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-clitoral-care-action-q01" }, { "text": "What has the person consented to regarding exposure, touch, imaging or treatment, and how will their limits or withdrawal be respected?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-clitoral-care-action-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Glans of the clitoris (the only consistently external part)", "Body (shaft) of the clitoris, formed by paired corpora cavernosa", "Crus of the clitoris (paired, along each inferior pubic ramus)", "Vestibular bulb / clitoral bulb (corpus spongiosum homologue; included in the organ by many modern accounts, listed separately from the clitoris in Terminologia Anatomica)", "Prepuce of the clitoris (clitoral hood)", "Frenulum of the clitoris", "Clitoromegaly (clinically enlarged clitoris, most often androgen-mediated)", "Residual deep clitoris after excision of the glans or hood (as after FGM Types I-III)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of clitoris this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q873072", "note": "Item for the human clitoris as an erectile organ of the vulva." }, { "scheme": "Terminologia Anatomica 1998", "value_or_pattern": "A09.2.02.001", "note": "Preferred term clitoris; subordinate codes include crus A09.2.02.002, body A09.2.02.003, glans A09.2.02.004; prepuce A09.2.01.009 and bulb of vestibule A09.2.01.013 sit under vulva, not under clitoris." }, { "scheme": "TA2", "value_or_pattern": "3565", "note": "Second-edition Terminologia Anatomica identifier for clitoris." }, { "scheme": "Foundational Model of Anatomy", "value_or_pattern": "FMA:9909", "note": "Whole organ; body of clitoris is FMA:20000." }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D002987", "note": "Descriptor; tree A05.360.319.887.436." }, { "scheme": "ICD-11", "value_or_pattern": "XA4851", "note": "MMS anatomy code; Foundation entity 1730349811." }, { "scheme": "UBERON", "value_or_pattern": "UBERON:0002411", "note": "Multi-species anatomy ontology class for clitoris." }, { "scheme": "UMLS", "value_or_pattern": "C0008984", "note": "Concept unique identifier aligned to MeSH D002987." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of clitoris this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Terminologia Anatomica 1998 and TA2 (Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology / IFAA) - official names and codes for the clitoris and its named parts.", "WHO classification of female genital mutilation (Types I-IV, with Type I/II subtypes) and WHO guidance that health workers must not perform FGM.", "Chicago DSD consensus and Endocrine Society congenital-adrenal-hyperplasia guidance - postpone clitoral reduction when enlargement is mild (stated threshold <2 cm).", "American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2025 structured review recommending TA-based preferred terms for the clitoris and vestibular bulbs in scientific communication (professional nomenclature, not statute)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of clitoris this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Sexual sensory organ: the glans and associated erectile tissues engorge during arousal and are the usual focus of clitoral stimulation and orgasm.", "Visible landmark on gynecologic examination, labour and pelvic-floor assessment; only the glans and hood are seen without dissection or imaging.", "At-risk structure in vulvar surgery, mid-urethral sling and anti-incontinence procedures, and in gender-affirming or CAH-related clitoroplasty, because the dorsal nerve runs on the body and glans.", "Neonatal and paediatric genital examination for differences of sex development, using clitoral size and Prader staging.", "Clinical and forensic recording of FGM/C and of later defibulation or clitoral reconstruction; the deep body and crura remain after glans excision.", "MRI, ultrasound and 3D morphometry in urogynecology and sex-medicine research; cadaver teaching of an organ that textbooks still often reduce to the glans." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of clitoris this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Glans length", "typical_range": "mean 6.4 (pooled range 1-21); office and regional series often ~5-8", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Glans width (transverse)", "typical_range": "mean 5.1 (pooled range 2-32); Verkauf office mean 3.4 ± 1.0", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Body (shaft) length", "typical_range": "mean 25.5 (pooled range 5-59); cadaver median 29 (13-59)", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Crus length", "typical_range": "mean 52.4 (pooled range 23-90); cadaver median 50 (25-68)", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Vestibular bulb length", "typical_range": "mean 52 (pooled range 13-70)", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Distance from glans to external urethral meatus", "typical_range": "mean 22.7 (pooled range 7-52)", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Clinical clitoromegaly threshold used to defer childhood reduction surgery", "typical_range": "mild enlargement stated as <20", "unit": "mm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of clitoris this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Female genital mutilation Types I-III: partial or total removal of the glans and/or prepuce, sometimes with labia, causing haemorrhage, infection, cysts, urinary difficulty, later obstetric harm and newborn risk; the internal body and crura usually remain.", "Iatrogenic injury to the dorsal nerve of the clitoris (calibre about 1-3 mm along body and crura) during clitoral reduction, other vulvar surgery or anti-incontinence procedures, with reduced sensation and impaired orgasm; childhood clitoroplasty is particularly implicated.", "Clitoromegaly from congenital adrenal hyperplasia and other androgen-excess DSDs, which may be mistaken for a typical penis and may trigger irreversible genital surgery.", "Misreading the very wide normal size range (glans length 1-21 mm in pooled data) as disease, or treating vestibular bulbs as non-clitoral and therefore omitting erectile tissue from surgical maps and teaching." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of clitoris this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Terminologia Anatomica lists the bulb of the vestibule under the vulva, not under the clitoris; MRI, sexology and many recent surgical papers treat the bulbs as part of a single clitoral erectile complex.", "FGM/C involving the clitoral glans and hood is concentrated in parts of Africa, the Middle East and some Asian communities, with substantial diaspora practice and care in Europe, North America and Australia.", "Common-language names vary (English clitoris/clit, German and Scandinavian Klitoris, Italian clitoride, Spanish clítoris, Greek κλειτορίς) while TA Latin clitoris is stable.", "Hood coverage of the glans is highly individual (none, partial or complete) rather than a reliable population marker; a large southern-China series reported glans length and width close to European office means." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of clitoris this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "External urethral orifice", "difference": "Lies immediately inferior/posterior to the glans; urine issues from the meatus. The clitoris is not perforated by the urethra." }, { "name": "Clitoral hood (prepuce) and meeting of the labia minora", "difference": "The hood is a cutaneous fold that may cover the glans; it is TA A09.2.01.009, not the glans itself. Retract or lift the hood to see the glans." }, { "name": "Penis", "difference": "Same genital-tubercle origin and erectile design, but the clitoris has no urethral lumen, is mostly internal, and is not a urinary organ." }, { "name": "Greater vestibular (Bartholin) glands", "difference": "Glandular structures that contact the posterior ends of the vestibular bulbs; bulbs are trabecular erectile tissue, glands are not." }, { "name": "Virilized phallus / micropenis in differences of sex development", "difference": "A visible genital tubercle alone does not decide the organ: karyotype, gonads, internal ducts and Prader stage separate clitoromegaly from a penis." }, { "name": "Frenulum of the labia minora (fourchette)", "difference": "Posterior junction of the labia minora; the frenulum of the clitoris is the anterior, inferior fold at the glans (TA A09.2.01.010)." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of clitoris this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which authoritative anatomical convention should govern inclusion or exclusion of the vestibular bulbs and associated tissues in this registry model?", "Which component-specific measurement methods and reference populations support interpretation across developmental stages without labelling variation as disease?", "Which validated approaches can assess clitoral sensory changes while distinguishing person-reported experience from clinical sensory testing?", "What evidence and clinical criteria support escalation for persistent swelling, new lesions, pain or sensory loss?", "How should tissue extent and uncertainty after injury, cutting or reconstructive procedures be represented when historical records and current observations differ?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "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 clitoris, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a clitoris, record its anatomy and reported or observed state, and identify appropriate, consent-dependent actions without treating anatomical variation as disease.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: human clitoris.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 113 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 clitoris, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "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": [ "human clitoris" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 113 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 clitoris from another, and a clitoris 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris 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 clitoris 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris 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 clitoris from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a clitoris is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a clitoris, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a clitoris, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a clitoris is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a clitoris and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris 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 clitoris is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris 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 clitoris is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "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 clitoris is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris 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 clitoris moves on its own.", "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 clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris 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 clitoris 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 clitoris between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris 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 clitoris, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a clitoris 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What clitoris is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of clitoris, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate clitoris from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish clitoris from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What clitoris does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does clitoris pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of clitoris judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where clitoris lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of clitoris, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does clitoris hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a clitoris 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 clitoris and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris 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 clitoris is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a clitoris, 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 clitoris, 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 clitoris 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 } } } }