Environment
type: Ontology
creator: Hans Cools, MD; Agfa Healthcare/Belgium
contributor: Until 2010: Pieterjan De Potter; Ghent University - IBBT/ELIS - Multimedia Lab/Belgium
publisher: Agfa Healthcare/Belgium
description: Formal general description of environment.
format: OWL-Full

environment
type: Class
definition: Surroundings as aggregate of things, conditions, and influences.
subclass of: SpatialResource

Concept
in scheme: sct20080731
notation: 276339004

community environment
type: Class
definition: Environment of a community of any kind.
subclass of: environment
comment: E.g. the human colon as an environment for bacteria.

human community environment
type: Class
definition: Man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places.
subclass of: community environment

Concept
in scheme: sct20080731
notation: 285202004

home
type: Class
definition: human principal residence
subclass of: human community environment
subclass of: Organization

Concept
in scheme: sct20080731
notation: 264362003

hasEnvironment
type: ObjectProperty
definition: Specifying an environment containing something.
sub property of: location
domain: Resource
range: environment

environmentOf
type: ObjectProperty
definition: Specifying something contained by an environment.
inverse of: hasEnvironment
domain: environment
range: Resource