secretion
Let an agent explain secretions as substances, relay kinds, glands and functions from physiology references, describe the specific secretions the aliases name including ganoin as a mineralised product, and distinguish secretions from excretions, from the process of secretion and from pathological discharges.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a secretion is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a secretion, and how does it differ from an excretion, the process of secretion and a discharge? definition
- Is the question about the class, a specific secretion or a medical matter? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What are sweat, tears, saliva, mucus, hormones and ganoin? definition
- Which entry fits the specific secretion? action
Physiology Physiology.
Glands
Glands and mechanisms.
Glands
Glands.
- How do exocrine and endocrine glands produce and release secretions? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Functions
Functions.
Functions
Functions.
- What functions do sweat, tears, saliva and mucus serve? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Clinical Clinical relevance.
Disorders
Disorders.
Disorders
Disorders.
- What disorders involve too little or too much secretion, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own symptoms, which need a clinician? boundary
Diagnostics
Diagnostics.
Diagnostics
Diagnostics.
- How are secretions such as saliva and sweat used in diagnosis? provenance
- Which entry fits sweat test? action
Context Other organisms.
Animals
Animal secretions.
Animals
Animals.
- What are venoms, pheromones, silk and ganoin as animal secretions? provenance
- Which entry fits ganoine? action
Plants
Plant secretions.
Plants
Plants.
- What do plants secrete, from nectar to resins and latex? provenance
- Which entry fits plant exudate? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- noun.body
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.LIV
- Facets: substance
- living
- Facets: origin
- natural
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- ganoin, ganoine, lacrimal secretion, lachrymal secretion, perspiration, sweat, sudor, intestinal juice, autacoid, autocoid, prostaglandin, synovia
What it is Filled
A functionally specialised substance released from a gland or cell, especially one that is not a waste product, in the WordNet sense covering products such as sweat or perspiration, lacrimal secretion or tears, saliva, mucus, hormones and digestive juices, and, by extension in the aliases, ganoin or ganoine, the enamel-like layer of ganoid fish scales; secretions are studied in physiology and are distinguished from excretions.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain secretions as substances, relay kinds, glands and functions from physiology references, describe the specific secretions the aliases name including ganoin as a mineralised product, and distinguish secretions from excretions, from the process of secretion and from pathological discharges.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Functional product
- Gland or cell origin
- Not waste
- Diverse forms
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose a person's illness from a description of their secretions.
- Tell a person to ignore abnormal secretions, such as blood in mucus, instead of seeing a clinician.
- Collect or analyze a person's bodily fluids without their consent.
- Mock or shame people about sweat, saliva or other secretions.
Only with a human decision
- Any advice that a person should or should not seek medical care for an abnormal secretion.
May
- Explain what a secretion is and how it differs from excretion.
- Describe common secretions such as saliva, tears, mucus, hormones and digestive juices from physiology references.
Moral aspects Filled
- Bodily secretions are intimate, and talk about them touches on dignity and stigma.
- Secretion samples can reveal health and genetic information about a person.
Who is affected
- Patients
- People with conditions affecting secretions
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; each person answers for their own body and samples.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-05404811-n - registry parent class
related
- body substance - in general terms
- gland - or cells
- excretion - a waste product
- sweat - a common secretion
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.secretion-body
- Open English WordNet: oewn-05412071-n
- WordNet: oewn-05404811-n a functionally specialized substance released from a gland or cell
Direct properties required Filled
- daily sweat: up to several litres - in heat
- daily saliva: about 0.5-1.5 litres
- ganoin: hypermineralised scale layer note - gars and bichirs
Recognition required Filled
- Specialised substance released from a gland or cell
- Sweat, tears, saliva, mucus, hormones; ganoin as a scale product
- Excretions are wastes; secretion as a process is the release; discharges may be pathological
- Not a visible object; fluids and substances from glands.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the class
- relay kinds and glands
- describe specific secretions
- distinguish related concepts
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing secretion and excretion
- Agents giving medical advice about abnormal secretions
- WordNet aliases including a fish scale material
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- No regulation; clinical standards for analysing secretions
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a class of biological substances.
- exocrine secretions such as sweat, tears, saliva and mucus
- endocrine secretions such as hormones
- digestive secretions
- defensive and signalling secretions such as venoms and pheromones
- mineralised secretions such as ganoin and enamel
- plant secretions such as nectar and resin
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-05412071-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: secretion - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should sweat, tears and ganoin be separate primary entries?
- How should physiology references be linked?
- The WordNet aliases include ganoin, a mineralised tissue; should it be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-secretion-body/spec.json