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Category
Characteristic

Child of:	Things [-1]
Has children:	Feature [+1] | Laterality [+1] | Position [+1] | Sex [+1] | TemporalMarker [+1]

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Category «Characteristic»: descriptors

• 24 hours'' period (from TemporalMarker)
• abnormal (from Feature)
• absorbance (from Feature)
• acquired (from Feature)
• active (from Feature)
• activity (from Feature)
• acute (from TemporalMarker)
• adequate (from Feature)
• adjustable (from Feature)
• affected (from Feature)
• after birth (from TemporalMarker)
• all (from Extent)
• altemeier method (from Method)
• amplitude of impulse (from Feature)
• anaesthesia (from Feature)
• anterior (from Position)
    lexical variants: 'front';
• anterior wrap 180 degrees (from Feature)
• anterior wrap 360 degrees (from Feature)
• asynchronous (from TemporalMarker)
• auditory threshold
• autonomic (from Feature)
• autosomal dominant inheritence (from Feature)
• autosomal recessive (from Feature)
• autosomal recessive inheritance (from Feature)
• Ball (from Method)
• baseline (from Feature)
• beating heart (from Method)
• bending (from Feature)
• benign (from Feature)
• bifurcated (from Feature)
• big (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'big size';
• bilateral (from Laterality)
    lexical variants: 'tow sides';'bilatéral';'two side';'two_sides';'two sides';
• billroth i i method (from Method)
• black (from Feature)
• Blalock-Hanlon (from Method)
• Blalock-Taussig shunt (from Method)
• blood pressure
    lexical variants: 'bloodpressure';
• body position (from Feature)
• body temperature (from Feature)
• brown (from Feature)
• cancellation
• Carpentier (from Method)
• central venous pressure (from Feature)
• chronic (from TemporalMarker)
    lexical variants: 'cronic';
• circular (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'circular shape';
• coma (from Feature)
• common (from Feature)
• complete (from Extent)
• complex (from Feature)
• conductivity (from Feature)
• congenital (from Feature)
• continent
• contour (from Feature)
• contralateral (from Laterality)
    lexical variants: 'other side';'other_side';
• controlled (from Feature)
• conventional (from Feature)
• coral like (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'coral_like';
• cuneate (from Feature)
• curvature (from Feature)
• customized (from Feature)
• cyclical (from Feature)
• Damus Stansel Kaye Method (from Method)
• decreased (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'decrease';
• decreased activity (from Feature)
• decreased level
• deep (from Position)
• deficiency (from Feature)
• deficiency of structure (from Feature)
• deficiency of substance (from Feature)
• dehydration (from Feature)
• delayed (from TemporalMarker)
• Delorme (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'delorme method';
• DeVega (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'de vega method';
• diameter (from Feature)
• diameter less than or equal to 20mm (from Feature)
• diameter less than or equal to 30 mm (from Feature)
• diameter more than 20mm (from Feature)
• diameter more than 30 mm (from Feature)
• direct (from Feature)
• disease (from Feature)
• distal (from Position)
    lexical variants: 'distal part';
• dor method (from Method)
• dorsal (from Position)
• dose
• double_curvature (from Feature)
• dryness (from Feature)
• duhamel method (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'Duhamel';
• during 24 hours (from TemporalMarker)
• during delivery (from TemporalMarker)
• during duction test (from TemporalMarker)
• during labour (from TemporalMarker)
• during multi-organ harvesting (from TemporalMarker)
• during pregnancy (from TemporalMarker)
• dynamic (from Feature)
• earlierMarker (from TemporalMarker)
• ectopic (from Feature)
• elevated (from Feature)
• en bloc (from Extent)
• episodic (from Feature)
• excess (from Feature)
• excess of structure (from Feature)
• excess of substance (from Feature)
• existing (from Feature)
• extended (from Extent)
• extended radical (from Extent)
• extra-anatomic (from Position)
• familial (from Feature)
• female (from Sex)
• FentonsMethod (from Method)
• ferguson method (from Method)
• first stage of multistage procedure (from TemporalMarker)
• first trimester of pregnancy (from TemporalMarker)
• flexible (from Feature)
• flow_rate (from Feature)
• focal (from Extent)
• foetal cardiac rhythm (from Feature)
• Fontan (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'fontan method';
• FowlerMethod (from Method)
• frequency (from Feature)
• frequent (from Feature)
• Frickman (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'frickman method';
• full blood count
• full thickness (from Extent)
• gait (from Feature)
• general anesthesia (from Feature)
• genetic (from Feature)
• Gilliam Method (from Method)
• gillies'' method (from Method)
• glucose tolerance (from Feature)
• good (from Feature)
• gradual (from Feature)
• grey (from Feature)
• half (from Extent)
• Hampton method (from Method)
• Hardy (from Method)
• Hartmann method (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'Hartmann';
• hazardous (from Feature)
• heart rate (from Feature)
• hemi (from Extent)
• heterotopic (from Position)
• high (from Feature)
• high frequency (from Feature)
• high level
• high speed (from Feature)
• history
• history of heart failure
• history of left ventricular failure
• Hohmann (from Method)
• horizontal (from Feature)
• horseshoe (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'horseshoe shape';
• Hshape (from Feature)
• hydraulic (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'hydrostatic';
• hypercalcaemia (from Feature)
• hypercholesterolaemia (from Feature)
• hyperglycaemia (from Feature)
• hyperkalaemia (from Feature)
• hyperlipidaemia (from Feature)
• hypertriglyceridaemia (from Feature)
• hypoglycaemia (from Feature)
• hypoglycaemic episode (from Feature)
• hypokalaemia (from Feature)
• hyponatraemia (from Feature)
• iatrogenic (from Feature)
• impacted (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'impacted fracture';
• impedance (from Feature)
• impedance of ossicula auditoria (from Feature)
• inactive (from Feature)
• inadequate (from Feature)
• incipient (from Feature)
• increased (from Feature)
• increased activity (from Feature)
• Increasing (from Feature)
• indication (from Feature)
• indirect (from Feature)
• ineffective (from Feature)
• inferior (from Position)
• infra (from Feature)
• inherited (from Feature)
• inside body (from Position)
• interaction (from Feature)
• interatrial (from Feature)
• intermittent (from TemporalMarker)
• internal (from Position)
• internal position (from Feature)
• internally (from Position)
• intracardiac (from Feature)
• intracranial pressure (from Feature)
• intradural pressure (from Feature)
• intraocular pressure (from Feature)
• intraoperative (from TemporalMarker)
    lexical variants: 'during_operating_room_procedureMarker';
• involuntary (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'unvoluntary';
• ipsilateral (from Laterality)
    lexical variants: 'same side';
• irreversible (from Feature)
• itchy (from Feature)
• Jones Modified Strassman (from Method)
• Jshape (from Feature)
• kay method (from Method)
• large size (from Feature)
• large volume (from Feature)
• lateral (from Position)
• left (from Laterality)
• length (from Feature)
• length of impulse (from Feature)
• limited extent (from Extent)
• linear (from Feature)
• Lloyd-Davies (from Method)
• local (from Extent)
    lexical variants: 'local attitude';
• long time (from TemporalMarker)
• Lord (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'lord method';
• loudness (from Feature)
• low level
• lower (from Position)
• lower part (from Position)
• major (from Feature)
• male (from Sex)
• malignant (from Feature)
• manual method (from Method)
• medial (from Position)
• medius (from Position)
• method surgical
• middle (from Position)
• mild (from Feature)
• Miles (from Method)
• milligan-morgan method (from Method)
• moderate (from Feature)
• modified radical (from Extent)
• modified taylor method (from Method)
• moschowitz method (from Method)
• Mustard (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'mustard method';
• Mustarde Method (from Method)
• neonatal (from TemporalMarker)
• night (from TemporalMarker)
• nissen method (from Method)
• nissen rosetti method (from Method)
• noble method (from Method)
• nodular (from Feature)
• non-anatomic position (from Position)
• nonlocal anesthesia procedure (from Feature)
• nonpatent (from Feature)
• normal position (from Position)
• Norwood Method (from Method)
• odontogenic (from Feature)
• oestrogenic role
• orthotopic (from Position)
• outside body (from Position)
    lexical variants: 'outside';
• outside cranium (from Position)
• oxygen pressure (from Feature)
• pain threshold
• painful (from Feature)
• palpable (from Feature)
• panas method (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'Panas';
• Park (from Method)
• parks method (from Method)
• paroxysmal (from Feature)
• partial (from Extent)
    lexical variants: 'partial extent';
• past (from Feature)
• patent (from Feature)
• pathological (from Feature)
• Pemberton (from Method)
• peripheral (from Position)
• permanent (from TemporalMarker)
    lexical variants: 'fixed device';
• pink (from Feature)
• plasma concentration (from Feature)
• plasma concentration of cholesterol (from Feature)
• plasma concentration of potassium (from Feature)
• plasma concentration of sodium (from Feature)
• plasma concentration of triglyceride (from Feature)
• platelet count (from Feature)
• Politzer Method (from Method)
• poor (from Feature)
• post-mortem (from TemporalMarker)
• posterior (from Position)
• posterior wrap 270 degrees (from Feature)
• posterior wrap 360 degrees (from Feature)
• postoperative (from TemporalMarker)
• postpartum (from TemporalMarker)
• posture (from Feature)
• Pott (from Method)
• prefabricated (from Feature)
• pregnancy during the first quarter (from TemporalMarker)
• pregnancy during the second quarter (from TemporalMarker)
• pregnancy equal to or more than 22 weeks amenorrhea (from TemporalMarker)
    lexical variants: 'pregnancy equal to or more than 22 amenorrhea week';
• pregnancy less than 22 amenorrhea weeks (from TemporalMarker)
• presence
• pressure (from Feature)
• previous history
• primary (from TemporalMarker)
    lexical variants: 'primarily';'initial';
• primary aetiology (from Feature)
• progestrogenic role
• progressive (from TemporalMarker)
• proliferative (from Feature)
• prolonged duration (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'prolonged';
• prolonged QT interval (from Feature)
• proximal (from Position)
    lexical variants: 'proximal part';
• Puig-Massana (from Method)
• pyrexia (from Feature)
• QT interval (from Feature)
• quarter (from Extent)
• radial (from Feature)
• radical (from Extent)
    lexical variants: 'radical attitude';'extensive extent';'radical extent';
• randomly repeating (from Feature)
• Rankin (from Method)
• rare (from Feature)
• Rastelli (from Method)
• rate (from Feature)
• recent (from TemporalMarker)
• recent surgery (from TemporalMarker)
• rectal pull through method (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'rectal pull through';
• recurrent (from TemporalMarker)
• redundant (from Feature)
• residual (from TemporalMarker)
• retroflexio (from Position)
• revision (from TemporalMarker)
    lexical variants: 'recurrence';
• right (from Laterality)
• rigid (from Feature)
• rigidity (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'rigidity feature';
• ring shape (from Feature)
• Ripstein (from Method)
• sagittal
• Sauer-Bacon (from Method)
• Schuchardts Method (from Method)
• second stage of multistaged procedure (from TemporalMarker)
• second trimester of pregnancy (from TemporalMarker)
• secondary (from TemporalMarker)
    lexical variants: 'secundary';'secondarily';
• semirigid (from Feature)
• Senning (from Method)
• sensitivity (from Feature)
• sequential (from Method)
• severe (from Feature)
• shape (from Feature)
• short length (from Feature)
• simple (from Feature)
• size (from Feature)
• small size (from Feature)
• smooth (from Feature)
• Soave (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'soave method';'soave method';
• soft (from Feature)
• spherical (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'spheric';
• spontaneous (from Feature)
• Sshape (from Feature)
• standing posture (from Feature)
• static (from Feature)
• Stone (from Method)
• Strassman Method (from Method)
• subtotal (from Extent)
• superficial (from Position)
• superior (from Position)
• supernumerary (from Feature)
• surgical
• Swenson (from Method)
    lexical variants: 'swenson method';
• synchronous (from TemporalMarker)
• T-cell depleted (from Feature)
• taylor method (from Method)
• temporary (from TemporalMarker)
    lexical variants: 'removable';'impermanentMarker';
• terminal (from Position)
• tertiary (from TemporalMarker)
• thickness (from Feature)
• Thiersch (from Method)
• third trimester of pregnancy (from TemporalMarker)
• threshold
    lexical variants: 'treshold';
• threshold of stapedius muscle reflex
• throbbing (from Feature)
• time (from Feature)
• Tomkins Method (from Method)
• topical (from Feature)
• total (from Extent)
    lexical variants: 'complete extent';
• toupet method (from Method)
• transient (from TemporalMarker)
• translation by McMurray (from Method)
• translucence (from Feature)
• traumatic (from Feature)
• triangular (from Feature)
• tube like (from Feature)
    lexical variants: 'tube_like';
• unilateral (from Laterality)
    lexical variants: 'one side';'one_side';
• unpalpable (from Feature)
• upper (from Position)
• upper part (from Position)
• upright (from Feature)
• urgent (from TemporalMarker)
• variant (from Feature)
• vertical (from Position)
• visible (from Feature)
• volume (from Feature)
• Von Kraske (from Method)
• Vosschulte (from Method)
• Waldhausen (from Method)
• water soluble (from Feature)
• Waterston (from Method)
• weakness (from Feature)
• wedge like (from Feature)
• Whitehead (from Method)
• wide (from Feature)
• Williams Method (from Method)
• Zacharin Method (from Method)

394 descriptors in this category

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Category «Characteristic»: links having this category or its ancestors as Left category
  ancestors: Things [-1]

Things [-1]	and	Untyped
Characteristic	IS_ACTED_ON_BY	Deed
Things [-1]	or	Untyped

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Category «Characteristic»: links having this category or its ancestors as Right category
  ancestors: Things [-1]

Process	ACTS_ON	Characteristic
Process	ACTS_ON_1	Characteristic
Process	ACTS_ON_2	Characteristic
Untyped	and	Things [-1]
Deed	HAS_EXTENT	Characteristic
Lesion	HAS_FEATURE	Characteristic
Pathology	HAS_FEATURE	Characteristic
Structure	HAS_FEATURE	Characteristic
Deed	HAS_METHOD	Characteristic
Anatomy	HAS_SIZE	Characteristic
Lesion	HAS_SIZE	Characteristic
Untyped	or	Things [-1]

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