An Ontological Analysis of Surgical Deeds

We collected a set of words, suffixes, and idioms regarding actions in surgical procedures, ie. “deeds” as defined in a CEN European Prestandard; we then searched for their definitions in different authoritative sources and we performed an ontological analysis of this material according to the ONIONS methodology. The result was a formal model on surgical actions, as an extension of our previous model ON8.5, using Ontolingua with “frame ontology”.

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