vial
IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/construct/Vial
Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/biopharma/BiopharmaEquipment/
SubClass Of: container
Class Hierarchy
owl:Thing › bfo:entity › bfo:continuant › bfo:independent continuant › bfo:material entity › bfo:object › material artifact › container › vial
Direct subclasses:
Definition
container that is small, sealable, and designed for holding, storing, or dispensing small quantities of material
Explanatory Notes
1) Vials are often cylindrical in form. 2) They are typically made of glass or plastic. 3) They are commonly used to hold pharmaceutical preparations, injectable drugs, biological products, cryopreserved cells or cell suspensions, or laboratory samples. 4) Some vials are used for headspace analysis, containing gas or the gaseous headspace above a liquid or solid. 5) They are usually sealed with a stopper, screw cap, or crimp closure to protect the contents.
Examples
- glass reagent vial used for chemical or media samples; autosampler vial used in analytical chromatography systems; cryovial used for frozen storage of a cryopreserved cell suspension
Adapted From
- https://www.fda.gov/drugs/data-standards-manual-monographs/data-standards-manual-monographs-package-type and http://purl.allotrope.org/ontologies/equipment#AFE_0000329
Primitive Class
This class is declared primitive and it does not have necessary and sufficient condiftions defined.
Primitive Rationale
There are insufficient constructs present to create a set of necessary and sufficient conditions.
Formal Axioms
First-Order Logic Axioms
Vial(x) → Container(x)
Semi-Formal Natural Language Axioms
if x is a ‘vial’ then x is a ‘container’
Description Logic
SubClassOf: constr:Container