FMA

The Foundational Model of Anatomy, a reference ontology of human anatomy.¹ OIDM uses it in two ways. It is a cross-reference code on anatomic locations, present on 1,643 of the 2,890 records in the curated set, the second most common system after SNOMED CT.² And its top-level organization supplies the shape of the location_type classification in the newer package, which maps material anatomical entity to structure, immaterial anatomical entity to space and region, body part to body_part, organ system to system, and set or collection to group.³

FMA is also one of the five terminologies the molu lookup tool spans, and the planned anatomy profile names FMA first, with the note that “RadLex imaging anatomy sits next to FMA.”⁴

Synonyms and near-synonyms

• Foundational Model of Anatomy is the expansion.
• FMA is the system string in an index code and the source abbreviation in the lookup tooling.
• RadLex is the primary anatomy identifier source in OIDM; FMA is a cross-reference.
• Uberon is a different anatomy ontology, named only in the planned anatomy profile.

Identifier form

A numeric identifier, carried in OIDM as a bare number with system: "FMA", for example 265256 for uterine adnexa.²

Where it is used

Ontologies used, Data model, and med-ontology-lookup.

Footnotes

1. Foundational Model of Anatomy on BioPortal ↩

2. anatomiclocations.org data file description ↩ ↩²

3. LocationType enumeration ↩

4. med-ontology-lookup product roadmap ↩