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xxx muscle terms #1295

Open slaulederkind opened 7 years ago

slaulederkind commented 7 years ago

Why is it that the terms for skeletal muscles end with "muscle" sometimes and sometimes not? For example these sibling terms:

flexor cruris lateralis muscle +
flexor digitorum profundus flexor hallucis brevis muscle flexor hallucis longus gastrocnemius +

cmungall commented 7 years ago

Good Q. We always suffix where there is potential for ambiguity, but for longer less ambiguous names we often contract. This seems generally to be the case for wikipedia, other AOs, ...

I defer to @rdruzinsky here

On 16 Nov 2016, at 9:16, slaulederkind wrote:

Why is it that the terms for skeletal muscles end with "muscle" sometimes and sometimes not? For example these sibling terms:

flexor cruris lateralis muscle + flexor digitorum profundus flexor hallucis brevis muscle flexor hallucis longus gastrocnemius +

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RDruzinsky commented 7 years ago

I don't think that it matters. Since they are all muscles, I don't think that "muscle" must be in the name. We should just decide one way or the other and make them all consistent.

RDruzinsky commented 7 years ago

Upon further reflection, I think that we should eliminate "muscle" from the names of the muscles.

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On Nov 16, 2016 12:55 PM, "Chris Mungall" notifications@github.com wrote:

Good Q. We always suffix where there is potential for ambiguity, but for longer less ambiguous names we often contract. This seems generally to be the case for wikipedia, other AOs, ...

I defer to @rdruzinsky here

On 16 Nov 2016, at 9:16, slaulederkind wrote:

Why is it that the terms for skeletal muscles end with "muscle" sometimes and sometimes not? For example these sibling terms:

flexor cruris lateralis muscle + flexor digitorum profundus flexor hallucis brevis muscle flexor hallucis longus gastrocnemius +

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cmungall commented 7 years ago

What about cases where this would create ambiguity, e.g. pterygoid?

fbastian commented 7 years ago

Plus it's bothersome to have to look at the parent to determine what a term is about.

cmungall commented 7 years ago

Good point.

A compromise could be to treat 'muscle' as redundant and exclude it, if the label already has a muscle type in like like 'flexor'.

RDruzinsky commented 7 years ago

Okay, I'm convinced. Why don't we be consistent and just add muscle to all of the names?

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On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Chris Mungall notifications@github.com wrote:

Good point.

A compromise could be to treat 'muscle' as redundant and exclude it, if the label already has a muscle type in like like 'flexor'.

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