[Babase] Re: body part
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Thu May 20 21:13:27 EDT 2010
Hi all,
This sounds like something we might need to talk about during a
conference call. Should we put it on our agenda?
Susan
On May 19, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Niki Learn wrote:
> That makes sense. W&P does have a separate column for left and right.
> Center is also occasionally used. It has a code for entire body
> (44), which
> I guess you could then tag as left or right for one side of the
> body. It
> does not have inner and outer but different segments of the limbs
> (moving
> proximal to distal) and various identifiable portions of the head
> and torso.
>
>
> It seems to me you could use 30 (leg unspecified) and - if you need
> it - 10
> (arm unspecified). Or maybe you could add a new code in line with
> these
> codes for entire limb, such as 35 for entire leg and 15 for entire
> arm? The
> unspecified codes have, however, been used for wounds that cover large
> portions of the body section in question so I think 30 would do you
> for the
> entire leg. That just leaves the inner and outer thing as a
> problem. You
> could have left outer, left inner, right outer, right inner for the
> "side"
> column if that would make sense. But I guess the observers can fill
> in all
> manner of body parts under "Other body parts" so that wouldn't work
> unless
> you could also just say left or right (L, R, C, LO, LI, RO, RI). Or
> add
> another column for inner and outer? Or maybe if it's just that left
> leg
> where you see inner and outer you could add leg codes (like 34 and
> 25) just
> for those and otherwise use the wounds body parts codes?
>
> Btw, there are some wounds sheets on tick infestations. And I just
> found a
> demography note on a tick infestation. Do I make a wounds sheet on
> that or
> just index it...hmmm...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU
> [mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Karl
> O. Pinc
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 10:09 PM
> To: Lacey Maryott Roerish; babase at eeblistserv.Princeton.EDU
> Subject: [Babase] Re: body part
>
> Lacey and I are looking at using the wounds and pathologies
> body part encoding with the darting tick/parasite count.
>
> On 05/18/2010 03:10:42 PM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:
>> Karl,
>>
>> I just started taking a stab at the body parts support codes..
>> and
>> realized that while the codes are very clear, they are 'un-sided'. so
>> arm is
>> arm, not left or right... :-\ do we want another column? Or diff
>> codes... I
>> have attached the diagram with codes.
>
> They are also missing any indication of inner/outer.
> And there is, to my mind,
> the problem of "aggregation", e.g. the entire foreleg is
> 12 _and_ 13 and the entire rear leg is 31 _and_ 32.
>
> I suspect that by the time this is worked out different
> codes would be simpler.
>
> The "ultimate" encoding would be hierarchal, so you could
> refer to a sub-part or it's parent or (perhaps) a whole side
> of the body. There would have to be separate body parts
> for left and right too. Eventually the teeth would fit in
> too. I have a feeling that nobody cares right now
> about having a unified encoding scheme, even to the extent
> of integrating wounds and pathologies and darting tick/parasite
> counts.
>
>
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
>
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