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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroinformatics. 2014 Apr;12(2):245–259. doi: 10.1007/s12021-013-9202-5

Table 1.

List of relations from FMA used in the faceted visualizer.

Relation Type Relations Type of queries
Structutal
Hierarchical
Relations
regional_part (of),
constitutional_part (of)
systemic_part(of), member (of), subclass (of),
patt (of), develops from
Used for recursive
search
Spatial Relations bounded_by, bounds, contained in, contains,
surrounds, surrounded_by, has_buundary,
efferent_to, afferent_to,
continuous_with, continues_with_distally,
continues_with_proximally,
articulates_with, adjacent_to
segmental_composition (of)
Used as facets for
specialized queries
Input-Output
relations
segmental_supply (of),
secondary_segmental_supply (of),
receives_attachment attaches_to,
sends_output_to, luput_from_receives_input_from
nerve_supply (of),
venous_drainage (of), arterial_supply (of)
tributary (of), lymphatic_drainage (of)
branch(of), primary_segmental supply (of),
Used as facets for
specialized queries
Miscellaneous gives_rise_to, type, origin (of), germ_origin,
muscle_origin (of), fascicular_architecture,
polarity, physical_State, State_of_determination,
homonym_of, synonym, definition, comment,
non_english_equivalent, FMAID, RadLexId,
inherent_3D_shape, cell_appendage_type,
has_mass, adheres_to, dimension, Talariach, Talariach_ID
Used as facets for
Specialized queries