| Property | Expected Type | description |
|---|---|---|
| infectiousAgent | Text | The actual infectious agent, such as a specific bacterium. |
| infectiousAgentClass | The class of infectious agent (bacteria, prion, etc.) that causes the disease. | |
| transmissionMethod | Text | How the disease spreads, either as a route or vector, for example 'direct contact', 'Aedes aegypti', etc. |
| Property | Expected Type | description |
|---|---|---|
| associatedAnatomy | The anatomy of the underlying organ system or structures associated with this entity. | |
| differentialDiagnosis | One of a set of differential diagnoses for the condition. Specifically, a closely-related or competing diagnosis typically considered later in the cognitive process whereby this medical condition is distinguished from others most likely responsible for a similar collection of signs and symptoms to reach the most parsimonious diagnosis or diagnoses in a patient. | |
| drug | Specifying a drug or medicine used in a medication procedure. | |
| epidemiology | Text | The characteristics of associated patients, such as age, gender, race etc. |
| expectedPrognosis | Text | The likely outcome in either the short term or long term of the medical condition. |
| naturalProgression | Text | The expected progression of the condition if it is not treated and allowed to progress naturally. |
| pathophysiology | Text | Changes in the normal mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions that are associated with this activity or condition. |
| possibleComplication | Text | A possible unexpected and unfavorable evolution of a medical condition. Complications may include worsening of the signs or symptoms of the disease, extension of the condition to other organ systems, etc. |
| possibleTreatment | A possible treatment to address this condition, sign or symptom. | |
| primaryPrevention | A preventative therapy used to prevent an initial occurrence of the medical condition, such as vaccination. | |
| riskFactor | A modifiable or non-modifiable factor that increases the risk of a patient contracting this condition, e.g. age, coexisting condition. | |
| secondaryPrevention | A preventative therapy used to prevent reoccurrence of the medical condition after an initial episode of the condition. | |
| signOrSymptom | A sign or symptom of this condition. Signs are objective or physically observable manifestations of the medical condition while symptoms are the subjective experience of the medical condition. | |
| stage | The stage of the condition, if applicable. | |
| status | The status of the study (enumerated). | |
| typicalTest | A medical test typically performed given this condition. |
| Property | Expected Type | description |
|---|---|---|
| code | A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc. | |
| funding | A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. | |
| guideline | A medical guideline related to this entity. | |
| legalStatus | The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply. | |
| medicineSystem | The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc. | |
| recognizingAuthority | If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine. | |
| relevantSpecialty | If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant. | |
| study | A medical study or trial related to this entity. |
| Property | Expected Type | description |
|---|---|---|
| additionalType | URL | An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally. |
| alternateName | Text | An alias for the item. |
| description | Text | A description of the item. |
| disambiguatingDescription | Text | A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation. |
| identifier | The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. | |
| image | URL ImageObject | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
| instanceOf | Type to which this subject belongs. Use for membership in a value set (Enumeration), not inheritance. Example: K2 instanceOf mountain; volcano subClassOf mountain. | |
| mainEntityOfPage | URL CreativeWork | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. |
| name | Text | The name of the item. |
| potentialAction | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. | |
| sameAs | URL | URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website. |
| subjectOf | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. | |
| url | URL | URL of the item. |