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Describes the standardized practices, grammar, and vocabulary for product data.
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Need initial copy written for field: Action #30

Open mwmalinowski opened 10 years ago

sklar-sherryp commented 10 years ago

I was going to make an attempt to put something in the style guide for the Action field but want to make sure I understand what's supposed to go in there first. This is not a field that we completed when we began working on completing the data. Is the action supposed to describe things like "cutting", "dissecting", "bone cutting", "shaving" and other verbs?

sklar-sherryp commented 10 years ago

I found a pretty good reference that I saved in dropbox

sklar-sherryp commented 10 years ago

I took the liberty of adding some basic information to the Action field. Not sure if it's what you want in there. Let me know if what is there should be modified at all.

mwmalinowski commented 10 years ago

In commit 734a8d5: The action made by an instrument to produce a desired result.

No.

Action has to do with using a lever to gain mechanical advantage.

In the context of surgical instruments 'Action' is usually identified by the number of fulcrums. A layman interpretation of a fulcrum could be "a fixed pivot point". On a pair of scissors the screw/rivet acts as the fulcrum. The more fulcrums, the more your force is amplified.

Basic Metzenbaum Scissors are Single Action--see the single screw that the two halves pivot on?

Double Action instruments often look like this Stille-Liston Rongeuer.

"Cross-Action" is just a marketing term that someone made up.