As Tom points out. It is used to define/represent a category. Words do have meanings and a dictionary is the authoritative reference on that as far as I know. :-)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rubric I believe that definition #5 applies here. Cheers, Tim On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 16:52 +0100, Thomas Beale wrote: > On 09/06/2010 12:43, ognian.pishev wrote: > > Why are the terms in the openEHR terminology called rubrics? Does > > this word have a special meaning in the terminology world. It is > > commonly used to designate groups and in this case we have single > > terms. > > > > > > yes but a 'term' denotes a category, i.e. a group of real instances, > extensionally. E.g. the rubric 'insulin dependent diabetes mellitus' > denotes the category of people with IDDM, i.e. the thousands (maybe it > is millions) of insulin-dependent diabetics in the world. > > - thomas beale > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical -- *************************************************************** Timothy Cook, MSc LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook Skype ID == (upon request) Academic.Edu Profile: http://uff.academia.edu/TimothyCook You may get my Public GPG key from popular keyservers or from this link http://timothywayne.cook.googlepages.com/home -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20100610/dd3bd55d/attachment.asc>
