Cornelius Rosse

To enhance the treatment of relations in biomedical ontologies we advance a methodology for providing consistent and unambiguous formal definitions of the relational expressions used in such ontologies in a way designed to assist developers and users in avoiding errors in coding and annotation. The resulting Relation Ontology can promote interoperability of ontologies and support new types of automated reasoning about the spatial and temporal dimensions of biological and medical phenomena.

INTRODUCTION The Study of Anatomy Anatomic Terminology TISSUES AND SYSTEMS OF THE BODY The Skin and Its Appendages The Connective Tissues The Skeletal System The Muscular System The Nervous System The Cardiovascular System The Digestive and Respiratory Systems The Urogenital System The Endocrine System THE BACK The Vertebral Column The Vertebral Canal, Spinal Cord, Spinal Nerves and Segmental Innervation THE LIMBS Basic Structural Plan of the Limbs Pectoral Region, Axilla and Shoulder The Free Upper Limb: Arm, Forearm and Hand Gluteal and Hip Regions The Free Lower Limb: Thigh, Leg and Foot THORAX The Thorax in General The Lungs The Pericardium, the Heart, and the Great Vessels The Mediastinum ABDOMEN The Abdomen in General The Gut and Its Derivatives The Posterior Abdominal Wall and Associated Organs The Inguinal and Femoral Canals The Scrotum The Applied Anatomy of Hernia PELVIS AND PERINEUM The Pelvis The Perineum HEAD AND NECK Head and Neck in General The Neck Skull, Face, and Jaws The Cranial Part of the Nervous System The Ear, Orbit, and Nose Pharynx and Laryn