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tissue (Tissue)

An aggregation of similarly specialized Cells and the associated intercellular substance. Tissues are relatively non-localized in comparison to BodyParts, Organs or Organ components. The main features of Tissues are self-connectivity (see SelfConnectedObject) and being a homogeneous mass (all parts in the same granularity are instances of Tissue as well).

Ontology

SUMO / OBJECTS

Superclass(es)

[tree]
entity
is subclass of
  physical  
is subclass of
  object  
is subclass of
  self connected object  
is subclass of
  substance  
is subclass of
  mixture  
is subclass of
  body substance  
is subclass of
  tissue  

Subclass(es)

bone  muscle  fat tissue 

Coordinate term(s)

blood  hormone 

Related WordNet synsets

tissue
a part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function
tissue is kind of (all)...   tissue is kind of...   kinds of tissue...   kinds of tissue (all)...   tissue is substance of...  
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Axioms (4)

If proc is an instance of organ or tissueprocess, then there exists thing so that proc is located at thing and thing is an instance of organ or thing is an instance of tissue. 
(=>
      (instance ?PROC OrganOrTissueProcess)
      (exists
            (?THING)
            (and
                  (located ?PROC ?THING)
                  (or
                        (instance ?THING Organ)
                        (instance ?THING Tissue)))))
tissue is disjointly decomposed into bone,muscle,fat tissue. 
(disjointDecomposition Tissue Bone Muscle FatTissue)
If stuff is an instance of tissue, then there exists cell part so that part is a part of stuff. 
(=>
      (instance ?STUFF Tissue)
      (exists
            (?PART)
            (and
                  (instance ?PART Cell)
                  (part ?PART ?STUFF))))
If stuff is an instance of tissue, then there exists organism organism so that stuff is a part of organism. 
(=>
      (instance ?STUFF Tissue)
      (exists
            (?ORGANISM)
            (and
                  (instance ?ORGANISM Organism)
                  (part ?STUFF ?ORGANISM))))