Formalizing a General Disease Module

Disease is of vital importance in the biomedical domain. A proper understanding of disease would help to provide a general conceptual framework for the integration of biological and biomedical data. This paper aims to elaborate upon the recent view that, on closer examination of existing ontological models of disease, a disease is generally characterized as a dependent continuant of a clinically abnormal causal pattern. This work will constitute a further step towards the development of an ontological module for generic disease representation.

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