Issue 7 in cpr-ontology: Should "Sequela" be a kind of "pathological-bodily-feature"

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Owner: chimezie
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New issue 7 by chimezie: Should "Sequela" be a kind
of "pathological-bodily-feature"
http://code.google.com/p/cpr-ontology/issues/detail?id=7

Stedman's medical dictionary has:

"A pathological condition resulting from a disease."

Currently, in CPR, we have:

Class: :sequela
## A Defined Class (Sequela) ##
EquivalentTo: 'bodily feature' that ( :isConsequenceOf
some 'Pathological process' )

Which permits any bodily feature that is a consequence of a pathological
process to be considered a member of this class. More broadly, do we need
to distinguish between bodily features that are pathological and those that
are not or are they inherently considered to be pathological by virtue of
their relationships to other concepts in the ontology (such as being the
consequence of a pathological process in this case)?