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infants; lower in females and older adults)", "unit": "% of body mass" }, { "quantity": "Whole-body adipose fraction (adults)", "typical_range": "10-35 (sex- and age-dependent; clinical cut-points differ)", "unit": "% of body mass" }, { "quantity": "Chronological age of the organism", "typical_range": "0-100+ (fetal age recorded in gestational weeks)", "unit": "a" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of human body 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": [ "Death: irreversible loss of organismal function (cardiorespiratory or neurological criteria), after which the body becomes remains.", "Multi-organ failure, trauma, haemorrhage, burns, drowning and other whole-body insults that destroy coordinated physiology.", "Failure of thermoregulation (hypothermia, heat stroke) and of fluid/electrolyte or energy homeostasis.", "Decomposition, putrefaction, skeletonisation and scavenging of the deceased body, which destroy anatomical completeness and identification.", "Misidentification of a living person or of remains; commingling of parts after disaster or conflict.", "Unconsented retention or use of bodies or tissue (legal and ethical failure under tissue and anatomical-gift law).", "Ionising radiation, toxic exposure and infection, which harm the living body and can contaminate remains.", "Pathological change that unfits a donated body for anatomy teaching or transplantation (e.g. extensive sepsis, some prion disease)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of human body 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": [ "Official part-names follow IFAA Latin TA2 in some curricula and eponyms or local-language terms in others.", "Body-donation, dissection and display are tightly licensed in some jurisdictions (e.g. UK Human Tissue Authority) and differently or more loosely governed elsewhere.", "Funerary practice (burial, cremation, exposure, embalming) changes how quickly a deceased body remains anatomically intact.", "Anthropometric reference tables are population-specific; ICRP reference bodies historically tracked Western adult data and later pediatric/voxel phantoms were added to reduce that bias.", "Legal tests of death (cardiorespiratory vs brain-death statutes) and of who may donate a body differ by country and US state.", "Clinical and sporting sex classification of bodies is not uniform and is contested where anatomy, chromosomes and legal sex diverge." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of human body 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": "Person / legal subject", "difference": "Legal personality is a status (rights, duties, capacity), not an anatomical whole; a corpse is a body and is not a person under ordinary civil law." }, { "name": "Organ or body part", "difference": "A part lacks the maximal anatomical completeness of one organism; the body is the integument-bounded whole from which parts are taken." }, { "name": "Human remains (fragmentary)", "difference": "Remains may be incomplete, commingled or reduced to bone; an intact body still presents a recognisable anatomical inventory of one individual." }, { "name": "Anatomical model, manikin or medical phantom", "difference": "Physical teaching or imaging stand-ins lack living tissue and organismal physiology; they are artefacts scaled to the body, not bodies." }, { "name": "Computational / voxel phantom", "difference": "A numerical mesh or voxel dataset (e.g. ICRP adult reference phantoms) represents a body for calculation; it is not a physical organism." }, { "name": "Non-human animal body", "difference": "Taxonomic identity: Homo sapiens (NCBITaxon:9606) versus another species, confirmed by anatomy, genetics or documented provenance." }, { "name": "Living patient versus cadaver", "difference": "Separated by legal death criteria (irreversible cessation of circulation or of brain function, as the jurisdiction defines); vital signs and consent regimes then diverge." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of human body this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already own the human organism or human body concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Where should lifecycle ownership transfer, if at all, between this model and models of human remains, particularly after decomposition or anatomical separation?", "How should pregnancy and conjoined anatomy represent relationships between bodily wholes without assuming that anatomical connectedness determines organism identity?", "Which anatomical vocabularies, observation standards and developmental references should be adopted, and how should their population and measurement limitations be recorded?", "Which neighbouring model owns consent, decision-making authority and jurisdiction-specific determinations, and what minimum references must this body model retain?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 31 } }