entity BFO:0000001 continuant An entity that exists in full at any time in which it exists at all, persists through time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts. BFO:0000002 occurrent An entity that has temporal parts and that happens, unfolds or develops through time. Sometimes also called perdurants. BFO:0000003 independent continuant A continuant that is a bearer of quality and realizable entity entities, in which other entities inhere and which itself cannot inhere in anything. BFO:0000004 process A processual entity that is a maximally connected spatiotemporal whole and has bona fide beginnings and endings corresponding to real discontinuities. BFO:0000007 processual entity An occurrent that exists in time by occurring or happening, has temporal parts and always involves and depends on some entity. BFO:0000015 processual entity UBERON:0000000 anatomical entity UBERON:0001062