Step | Description | Examples |
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1. | Identify a phrase that is about some Locus | "Right upper quadrant of the abdomen" |
"surface of the large intestine" | ||
2. | Find the major anatomical site. What is the most general, or most whole, bit of the phrase | In "Right upper quadrant of the abdomen" this would be "abdomen". |
In "surface of the large intestine" this would be "intestine" | ||
3. | Does the dictionary test apply? Is there a multiword part of the phrase that could be considered a term in a dictionary? If so, this becomes our major anatomical site. | In "Right upper quadrant of the abdomen", there is none, so "abdomen" is the major anatomical site. |
In "surface of the large intestine", "large intestine" would be found in a medical dictionary, so is the major anatomical site. | ||
4. | Are adjacent words anatomical or general? | In "Right upper quadrant of the abdomen", none of the other words are anatomical terms, they are all general language. |
In "section of the inguinal lymph node", the word "inguinal" is another anatomical locus - and so joins "lymph node" to become part of the anatomical site | ||
5. | Mark the main locus | For "Right upper quadrant of the abdomen" this would be "abdomen". |
For "surface of the large intestine", this would be "large intestine". | ||
For "section of the inguinal lymph node", this would be "inguinal lymph node" | ||
6. | Mark other general location words as a single sub-location, excluding laterality | For "Right upper quadrant of the abdomen", this would be "upper quadrant" |
7. | Mark any laterality | For "Right upper quadrant of the abdomen", this would be "right" |