Relation TREATS

Applies a remedy with the object of effecting a cure or managing a condition. Here: the basic treatment: some agent performs a care process having a clinical condition or a patient or disabled group as objective.
Arity: 2
Mapping: This is highly metonymical. In the context of a graph such as: one-(performs)->process |-(by-actor)->(:or object process) |-(recipient)->patient->(embodies)->clinical-situation 'treats' templates have a domain including the 'one', the 'process', or even the '(:or object process)', and a range of either 'patient' or a patient's condition, i.e. a clinical situation involving one or more of the following: '(:or Pathologic-Function Injury-Or-Poisoning Anatomical-Abnormality Sign-Or-Symptom)'. There are at least five kinds of relations within here: 1) an animate domain for a from-actor-of (kind of 'performs'), with a processual clinical condition as range. For example: (physician-(treats1)->injury) (no metonymy here); 2) an animate domain for a pseudo-actor-of (kind of 'performs'), with a generalized clinical condition as range (violation of the 'process' range for actors!). Also 'treats2': (:composition treats1 For example: (physician-(treats2)->anatomical-abnormality) (no metonymy here); 3) an animate domain for a composed actor 'treats3': (:composition treats2 embodied-in), with a patient or patient group as range; 4) a procedural domain for a composed actor 'treats4': (:composition action-for performed-by treats2), with a generalized clinical condition as range. For example: (therapy-(treats4)->injury), e.g., the actor performing the therapy is implicit; 5) an object (artifact, substance, etc.) -used to treat- as a domain for a composed actor 'treats5': (:composition by-actor-of action-for treats2). For example: (device-(treats5)->anatomical-abnormality), e.g., the from-actor-of using the object is implicit, as well as the procedure which has the device as resource. At the moment, it may seem too detailed to distinguish five relations only on the basis of their domains (in fact, 4 out of 5 have the same treats2 as relevant component). An alternative is dismissing the 'treats' relation and talking of a 'treatment' procedure. In this case, the five cases above would result as follows (by the examples): a) (physician-(performs)->treatment-(target)->injury) b) (physician-(performs)->treatment-(target)->anatomical-abnormality) c) (?physician-(performs)->treatment-(recipient)->patient-or-disabled-group) d) (physician-(performs)->therapy-(target)->injury) e) (device-(by-actor-of)->?treatment-(target)->anatomical-abnormality) Currently, 'treats' is restricted to actual performers and directly to conditions (cases (1) and (2) above). Cases (4) and (5) are described by the new composed relations: 'treatment-action', 'treatment-device' and 'treatment-resource' in theory:clin-act. The metonymy by which a patient or group is 'treated' (case (3) above) is described in relation 'cares'.
Subrelation-Of: Clinical-actor-of
Axioms:
(=> (Treats ?A ?B)
    (Exists (?C) (And (Performs ?A ?C) (Treatment-Action-Of ?C ?B))))