]> 2009/04/07 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2009 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. Mappings between OpenCyc terms and Wikipedia article names provided by Olena Medelyan and Catherine Legg, University of Waikato, NZ under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. The collection of all practitioners of homeopathy, a system of medicine whose fundamental principle is the law of similars - that like is cured by like. A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rva-nGJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Homeopath</a> will give a patient a tiny dose of a substance that produces in healthy people the same symptoms that the patient exhibits. Homeopath homeopathist homeopaths homeopathists homeopath Homeopathy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-homeopath-noun-1 The collection of all practitioners of homeopathy, a system of medicine whose fundamental principle is the law of similars - that like is cured by like. A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rva-nGJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Homeopath</a> will give a patient a tiny dose of a substance that produces in healthy people the same symptoms that the patient exhibits. Homeopath homeopathist Wikipedia Article URL (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNv0nbm4TTjOp7yhmnzOyqg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleURL</a> THING URL) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article located at URL wikipediaArticleURL seeAlsoURI <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4riWVFR6HJSpaEaHrcWS3MSA" class="cyc_term">seeAlsoURI</a> <b>THING</b> <b>URI</b>)</code> means that a description of the resource identified by URI is likely to contain information pertinent to THING. This predicate is roughly equivalent to rdfs:seeAlso. See Also URI health professional type by specialty HealthProfessionalTypeBySpecialty The collection of all types of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVik0pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HealthProfessional</a> faceted by specialty. The collection of all practitioners of homeopathy, a system of medicine whose fundamental principle is the law of similars - that like is cured by like. A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rva-nGJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Homeopath</a> will give a patient a tiny dose of a substance that produces in healthy people the same symptoms that the patient exhibits. Homeopath homeopathist medical specialty An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rHQdVmB_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">SecondOrderCollection</a>, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVii2ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByOccupation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQrpM5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MedicalSpecialistType</a> is a type of profession in the field of health care. Instances include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjrVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Doctor_Medical</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjfgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Dentist</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViV3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Nurse</a>. MedicalSpecialistType The collection of all practitioners of homeopathy, a system of medicine whose fundamental principle is the law of similars - that like is cured by like. A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rva-nGJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Homeopath</a> will give a patient a tiny dose of a substance that produces in healthy people the same symptoms that the patient exhibits. Homeopath homeopathist Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwFSxf5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AlternativeMedicineSpecialistType</a> is a collection of collections. Each element of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwFSxf5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AlternativeMedicineSpecialistType</a> is a collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv9a24ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AlternativeMedicinePractitioner</a> s who practice the same type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvkOeKZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AlternativeMedicine</a> modality. The forms of practice that are considered &quot;alternative&quot; vary by context. Some example elements in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwP1l3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ModernWesternMedicineMt</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPMQc5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Acupuncturist</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rva-nGJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Homeopath</a>. alternative medicine occupation type AlternativeMedicineSpecialistType The collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVik0pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HealthProfessional</a>s who are practitioners of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvkOeKZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AlternativeMedicine</a>. This collection is not coextensive with the collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVik0pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HealthProfessional</a>s who provide services that are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvf746ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AlternativeMedicineHealthCareEvent</a> because some practitioners act as teachers of a self-care skill, such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvutZfpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AlexanderTechnique</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwSsPvZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Qigong</a>. AlternativeMedicinePractitioner alternative medical practitioner wikipediaArticleName (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTv-jk9SPTXa991kk5mAvHg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleName</a> THING NAME) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article with the title NAME Wikipedia Article Name MedicalCareProfessional A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjnN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonWithOccupation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQwxbpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MedicalCareProfessional</a> is a person whose occupation principally involves medical care of patients, including surgery, psychological care, physical therapy, practical nursing, and dispensing drugs. Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQwxbpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MedicalCareProfessional</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjrVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Doctor_Medical</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjfgpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Dentist</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjdu5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Pharmacist</a>. medical care professional