Class PATHOLOGIC-FUNCTION

A disordered process, activity, or state of the organism as a whole, of a body system or systems, or of multiple organs or tissues. Included here are normal responses to a negative stimulus as well as patholologic conditions or states that are less specific than a disease. Pathologic functions frequently have systemic effects.
Subclass-Of: Biologic-function
Subclass-Partition: {Experimental-model-of-disease, Cell-or-molecular-dysfunction, Disease-or-syndrome}

Slots Of Instances:

_Disordered:
Slot-Cardinality: 1
Axioms:
(Slot-Value-Type Pathologic-Function
                 Manifestation-Of
                 Biologic-Function)

(=> (Pathologic-Function ?Self)
    (And (Forall (?A)
                 (=> (Result-Of ?Self ?A)
                     (Or (Behavior ?A)
                         (Health-Care-Activity ?A)
                         (Pathologic-Function ?A))))
         (Forall 
             (?B)
             (=> (Complicates ?Self ?B)
                 (Or (Injury-Or-Poisoning ?B)
                     (Disordered-Function-Caused-By-Anatomical-Abnormality ?B)
                     (Pathologic-Function ?B))))))