The symptom ontology was designed around the guiding concept of a symptom being: “A perceived change in function, sensation or appearance reported by a patient indicative of a disease”. Understanding the close relationship of Signs and Symptoms, where Signs are the objective observation of an illness, the Symptom Ontology will work to broaden it’s scope to capture and document in a more robust manor these two sets of terms. Understanding that at times, the same term may be both a Sign and a Symptom. The Symptom Ontology is available under CC0 license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
Variceal bleeding "is a gastrointestinal bleeding symptom that is characterized by the bleeding of varices located throughout the gastrointestinal tract, such as in the esophagus, stomach, and rectum."
See here for the source to this definition.
Bleeding varices is a symptom of caroli disease and is a specific type of gastrointestinal bleeding. I believe it fits under your existing term. Please let me know if it makes sense to contribute this to your ontology or not.
Michael, we're currently in a very busy season of scientific conferences but @csbjohnson will review your request when she's next available (it will probably be a few weeks).
allenbaron
commented
8 months ago
Hello, I'd like to propose a new SubClass of gastrointestinal bleeding.
Variceal bleeding "is a gastrointestinal bleeding symptom that is characterized by the bleeding of varices located throughout the gastrointestinal tract, such as in the esophagus, stomach, and rectum." See here for the source to this definition.
Bleeding varices is a symptom of caroli disease and is a specific type of gastrointestinal bleeding. I believe it fits under your existing term. Please let me know if it makes sense to contribute this to your ontology or not.
Thanks!