MedicalEntity
The most generic type of entity related to health and the practice of medicine.
Properties
8 of its own, and 14 it inherits. Each says what kind of value it takes.
| Property | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| code | Value: Medical | A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc. |
| funding | Value: Grant | A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. |
| guideline | Value: Medical | A medical guideline related to this entity. |
| legal | Value: Drug | The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply. |
| medicine | Value: Medicine | The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc. |
| recognizing | Value: Organization | If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine. |
| relevant | Value: Medical | If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant. |
| study | Value: Medical | A medical study or trial related to this entity. |
| Property | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| additional | Value: Text or URL | An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide. |
| alternate | Value: Text | An alias for the item. |
| description | Value: Text or Text | A description of the item. |
| digital.org.ai | Value: Number | Digital maturity score from 0.0 (fully analog/manual) to 1.0 (fully digital/autonomous). Indicates the degree to which an entity operates digitally. |
| disambiguating | Value: Text | A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation. |
| identifier | Value: Property | The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details. |
| image | Value: Image | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
| main | Value: Creative | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. |
| name | Value: Text | The name of the item. |
| owner | Value: Organization or Person | A person or organization who owns this Thing. |
| potential | Value: Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. |
| same | Value: URL | URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website. |
| subject | Value: Creative | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. |
| url | Value: URL | URL of the item. |
Subtypes
19 more specific kinds of Medical
- Anatomical
Structure10 subtypes Any part of the human body, typically a component of an anatomical system. - Anatomical
System An anatomical system is a group of anatomical structures that work together to perform a certain task. - Drug
Class A class of medical drugs, e.g., statins. - Drug
Cost The cost per unit of a medical drug. - Lifestyle
Modification3 subtypes A process of care involving exercise, changes to diet, fitness routines, and other lifestyle changes aimed at improving a health condition. - Medical
Cause The causative agent(s) that are responsible for the pathophysiologic process that eventually results in a medical condition, symptom or sign. - Medical
Condition5 subtypes Any condition of the human body that affects the normal functioning of a person, whether physically or mentally. - Medical
Contraindication A condition or factor that serves as a reason to withhold a certain medical therapy. - Medical
Device Any object used in a medical capacity, such as to diagnose or treat a patient. - Medical
Guideline2 subtypes Any recommendation made by a standard society (e.g. - Medical
Indication3 subtypes A condition or factor that indicates use of a medical therapy, including signs, symptoms, risk factors, anatomical states, etc. - Medical
Intangible9 subtypes A utility class that serves as the umbrella for a number of 'intangible' things in the medical space. - Medical
Procedure10 subtypes A process of care used in either a diagnostic, therapeutic, preventive or palliative capacity that relies on invasive (surgical), non-invasive, or other… - Medical
Risk Any rule set or interactive tool for estimating the risk of developing a complication or condition.Estimator2 subtypes - Medical
Risk A risk factor is anything that increases a person's likelihood of developing or contracting a disease, medical condition, or complication.Factor - Medical
Study2 subtypes A medical study is an umbrella type covering all kinds of research studies relating to human medicine or health, including observational studies and… - Medical
Test4 subtypes Any medical test, typically performed for diagnostic purposes. - Substance2 subtypesAny matter of defined composition that has discrete existence, whose origin may be biological, mineral or chemical.
- Superficial
Anatomy Anatomical features that can be observed by sight (without dissection), including the form and proportions of the human body as well as surface landmarks that…
Where it is a value
10 properties take a Medical
- adverse
Outcome on MedicalDevice and Therapeutic Procedure - cause
Of on MedicalCause - estimates
Risk on MedicalOf Risk Estimator - functional
Class on Joint - funded
Item on Grant - guideline
Subject on MedicalGuideline - increases
Risk on MedicalOf Risk Factor - preparationon Medical
Procedure - serious
Adverse on MedicalOutcome Device and Medical Therapy - study
Subject on MedicalStudy
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Entity - ReleaseVersion 30.116 September 2026
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