Just yesterday I came across a new scientific terminology: coarse-grain. The terminology means to leave behind details that make the data complex and take only the steady features in account. For scientists in the computational molecular biology field coarse-graining helps in carrying out a lot of simulations for extended time period. This is a terminology that tells about the scale.
If we'd, in Pathology, decided to use a reporting system in the vein of a synoptic report, we would be much better off demarcating scales at which observations are made. The various scales that I propose are as follows: Molecular Cellular Micro Coarse-grain Macro Gross The various patterns viz. sheets, nests, islands, trabeculae, papillae, storiform, herringbone, etc belong to coarse-grain scale, somewhere between microscale (lining epithelium) and macroscale (excrescences). The new proposed reporting…
