Body temperature Core vs. non-core body temperature Core temperature |inheres in| |Body internal region| with |direct site| used to specify where the temp is measured (e.g. axilla) Proposed renaming of core body temperature observables |Forehead skin strip temperature| core or non-core? |Forehead temperature| core or non-core? |Skin temperature| core or non-core?

Body temperature Where are temperatures measured? With heat conduction techniques, probe is typically placed in some space (e.g. sublingual space) or adjacent to some structure (e.g. axillary region). Basal temperature is primitive

Heart/respiratory rate Rates are observables about process qualities (BioTop) Rate observables uses |characterizes| to specify a process (BioTop, process quality of) Heart rates characterize |Heart beating process| Resp. rates characterize |Breathing process|

Heart rate Pulse rate is a kind of heart rate |direct site| specifies site of observation

Respiratory rate Total breath rate is primitive

Blood pressure Blood pressure |inheres in| spaces (e.g. a lumen of a blood vessel, atrium) Blood pressure does not relate to substance (e.g. blood) or other participants in heart beating process (e.g. wall of blood vessel, heart)

Blood pressure Processes on two levels (heart cycle parts and series of heart beats) are referred to in blood pressure observables definitions A part-whole structure of processes is needed

Blood pressure How does the blood pressure relate to the processes? |characterizes| is used for process qualities What is observed is the quality at instantaneous moment or, in case of aggregated pressure, during an interval New attribute |during| (or at/during)

Blood pressure New attribute for aggregation needed Pulse and mean pressure primitive In principle, there could be average/max/min mean/pulse pressure