Definition: An occurrent consisting of a characteristic spatial shape inhering in some arrangement of other occurrents. Processual contexts are characteristically entities at or in which other occurrents can be located or occur. |
Examples: a surgical operation as processual context for a nosocomical infection, a routine check-up as processual context for the finding of a tumor, a clinical trial as processual context for the discovery of a new treatment or drug |
•owl:Thing |
•entity |
•occurrent |
•processual_context |