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#258 Add 'Abnormal nail growth' as synonym of 'Nail dysplasia'

musculoskeletal
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Peter N. Robinson
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2014-01-28
2014-01-26
Melissa Haendel
No

I do not think this is a good synonym. Abnormal nail gtrowht seems to be referring to the speed with which nails grow. There was an HPO term, HP:0008383, slow-growing nails, and I have added 'Abnormal nail growth' as a related synonym (I do not think there is "Quick nail growth"). Nail dysplasia means that the morphology of the nail is abnormal because of some defect in nail development or growth, but does not necessarily refer to the speed of growth.

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  • Peter N. Robinson

    Peter N. Robinson - 2014-01-28
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+I do not think this is a good synonym. Abnormal nail gtrowht seems to be referring to the speed with which nails grow. There was an HPO term, HP:0008383, slow-growing nails, and I have added 'Abnormal nail growth' as a related synonym (I do not think there is "Quick nail growth"). Nail dysplasia means that the morphology of the nail is abnormal because of some defect in nail development or growth, but does not necessarily refer to the speed of growth.
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  • Melissa Haendel

    Melissa Haendel - 2014-01-28

    I think this is fine for now. However, this is interesting because this is a case of mixing abnormal processes with abnormal continuants and we likely have inconsistencies in different branches. So abnormal growth (rate) would be an abnormal process, abnormal growth (morphology) would not. For example in MP 'abnormal hair growth' has subclasses referring to both rate and morphology, but is itself a subclass of 'abnormal coat appearance' and 'abnormal coat/hair morphology'.
    In PATO, 'growth rate' and 'morphology' are in the two different branches, respectively, but not declared disjoint probably for this reason ;-). Phenotype ontologies are so odd, sometimes.

     

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