What's the difference between nomenclature and ontology?

Nomenclature


Definition:

  • (n.) A name.
  • (n.) A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary.
  • (n.) The technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gangliosides are identified according to the nomenclature of Svennerholm (1963).
  • (2) [The EC number of the toxin (EC 3.1.4.41) has been allotted by the Nomenclature Committee of IUB, but has not yet been published.]
  • (3) These properties allow PP-X and PP-Y to be classified as type-2A enzymes according to the nomenclature of Cohen.
  • (4) The terminology of the pericardial sinuses and recesses has been inconsistent, and the authors propose a nomenclature for standardizing the names of the recesses of the serous pericardium.
  • (5) Three hundred and sixty-nine chromosome breaks could be exactly localized to a chromosome band or region of the Paris Conference nomenclature.
  • (6) Polyps were detected ultrasonographically, but one third of them were overlooked by either cholecystography or CT. Nomenclature, pathological classification and management of the lesions are discussed.
  • (7) The characterization of inhibition mechanisms by graphical methods is examined, and a system of nomenclature is suggested.
  • (8) Identification of attribute sets for the nature-of-injury (body region:detailed part:type of injury) and for the mode-of-injury (mechanism:agent:activity:intent:setting) allows the assembly of a clear, concise, easily usable, nad extensible format for representing the appropriate level of detail for nomenclature or classification.
  • (9) Illustrated by data derived from the endocrine system it could be demonstrated that at least the following requirements have to be fulfilled when using historical control data for the interpretation of animal studies: The main and basic requirement is the utilization of standardized diagnostic criteria and a systematized nomenclature for all data which should be compared.
  • (10) A standard genetic map gives distance from pter in centimorgans (cM), uses the international nomenclature for assigned loci, is sex-specific, and allows as well as possible for interference and typing errors.
  • (11) The Problem-Oriented Record (POR) does not have a standardized nomenclature or criteria; and the Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) approach was organized mainly for fiscal goals.
  • (12) Because of the similarities, and because of the uniform nomenclature for human T-cell leukemia (lymphotropic) viruses adopted at the first Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on HTLV (19, 79), this newly discovered virus associated with AIDS as HTLV-III was named HTLV-III.
  • (13) It is still difficult to apply for material reasons such as the small number of physiotherapists and the lack of inscription in the Social Security nomenclature.
  • (14) For many years the classification and nomenclature of these organisms have been confused, but recent studies have clarified the situation considerably.
  • (15) These data and alpha interferon nomenclature are summarized in table form.
  • (16) In this note is recommended a unified nomenclature for allotypes and variants of human complement factor B, which was approved by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS).
  • (17) The definition and classification of the anatomical structures and divisions are in agreement with the standard textbooks of anatomy, and the nomenclature is that of the Nomina Anatomica of 1965.
  • (18) These results suggest that problem nomenclature should include DSM-III diagnoses.
  • (19) Conventions for nomenclature of structural elements and a standard secondary structure representation for group I introns have been established by workers in the field.
  • (20) A 56-component isocratic method for the study of the kynurenine system in Huntington's Disease (HD) is presented as an indication of the analytical definitions and nomenclature used to qualify an n-ELC procedure, and an indication of the implications of multiparameter data bases on data handling and experimental design.

Ontology


Definition:

  • (n.) That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Interpretation of PS places it at the border between the clinical psychiatric fields and the ontological problems of humanity and leads to the understanding not only of the morbid psychic phenomenon in general and of the suicide in particular, but also to the major reasons of the human being who is trapped critical circumstances.
  • (2) Ontological studies of thymic tissue demonstrated that the epitope recognized by this MAb was expressed before Day 14 of gestation, although the restricted subcapsular and medullar expression of 8.1.1 was not apparent until sometime after birth.
  • (3) This essay eschews reductionist, dualist, and identity-theory attempts to resolve this problem, and offers an ontology--"monistic dual-aspect interactionism"--for the biopsychosocial model.
  • (4) The sequential topographic development of nerve preceding NSE-taste bud cells in precise morphological locations, suggests that the ingress of precursor NSE-taste bud cells and their subsequent differentiation are contingent upon initial neural derived ontologic signals.
  • (5) This ontologic sequence was not affected by T cell depletion or antigen presentation on adult macrophages.
  • (6) Rather, such peritoneal invaginations and endometriosis may be ontologically related to a separate codevelopmental factor.
  • (7) Based on a phenomenological analysis of psychotic interpretation of the world concretism is supposed to represent an important mechanism of schizophrenic thinking: Schizophrenic concretism is the result of an ontological regression of cognitive functioning onto the archaic level of actional representation.
  • (8) Stopping here, though, is actually the action of a fool – because this conclusion naturally opens up further counterarguments to sandwich ontology that sandwich reactionaries invariably make in bad faith.
  • (9) It suggests the need for greater attention to subjective self-evaluated self-reported components of health status, specified here as "ontological" health.
  • (10) Philosophical-ontological questions about man's nature are answered implicitly in clinical practice.
  • (11) A dynamic, an ontological and a relational illness conception are depicted.
  • (12) Others have engaged the Hot Dog-Sandwich debate in the past, but they have not gone far enough in exploring the scope of sandwich ontology.
  • (13) In her essay, Mill criticizes Iglesias's Aristotelian analysis as being too static and abstract to use in an ontological assessment of human structure and development from fertilization to birth.
  • (14) An EA rosette technique is used to study ontological development and organ distribution of Fc(IgG) receptor-bearing lymphoid cells in normal CS White Leghorn chickens, and in OS chickens with spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis.
  • (15) Three experiments assessed the possibility, suggested by Quine (1960, 1969) among others, that the ontology underlying natural language is induced in the course of language learning, rather than constraining learning from the beginning.
  • (16) The possibility of ontological reduction hinges on whether chromosomes have other important constituents than molecules.
  • (17) The concept is seen to arise as a consequence of the development of the modern ontological view of disease, the shift in the role ascribed to the nervous system and theoretical developments involving the explanation of psychoses through a descriptive language of psychopathology and bodily states.
  • (18) Five categories of questions provide a framework for the analysis: ontological, anthropological, ontical, epistemological, and pedagogical.
  • (19) Data discussed herein supports the contention that synaptic connections serve a central role in triggering the ontological cascade.
  • (20) But if we accept that a neat meal package of either hinged or wrapping breads or the classic two-slice model are the ontological bases for a sandwich, suddenly we must introduce new food to that classification – arepas, banh mi, a disruptive new egg roll out of Shanghai the size of a football or an infant.