loading...| Preferred Name |
site |
| Definitions |
Note that this can refer to a material entity like an organ or muscle, or an immaterial entity (a site or fiat boundary) like skin, stomach cavity or lung surface. |
| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000029 |
| comment |
Note that this can refer to a material entity like an organ or muscle, or an immaterial entity (a site or fiat boundary) like skin, stomach cavity or lung surface. |
| BFO CLIF specification label |
Site |
| BFO OWL specification label |
site |
| database_cross_reference |
SNOMEDCT:10546003 NCIt:C37901 |
| definition |
A site is an entity which consists of a characteristic spatial shape in relation to some arrangement of other material entities. |
| elucidation |
b is a site means: b is a three-dimensional immaterial entity that is (partially or wholly) bounded by a material entity or it is a three-dimensional immaterial part thereof. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [034-002]) |
| example of usage |
the Grand Canyon the interior of your office the interior of your bedroom the Piazza San Marco the interior of the trunk of your car a rabbit hole your left nostril (a fiat part – the opening – of your left nasal cavity) an air traffic control region defined in the airspace above an airport the hold of a ship Manhattan Canyon) a hole in the interior of a portion of cheese the lumen of your gut the cockpit of an aircraft the interior of a kangaroo pouch the interior of your refrigerator |
| has associated axiom(fol) |
(forall (x) (if (Site x) (ImmaterialEntity x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [034-002] |
| has_alternative_id | |
| imported from |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo.owl |
| is defined by | |
| label |
site site |
| prefixIRI |
BFO:0000029 |
| prefLabel |
site |
| term editor |
James Malone |
| subClassOf |