We have three words – how do we build a structure that represents what the words mean?
Fibroblast – living tissue
Growth
Several meanings
Intransitive – a plant grows
An object increases in size
Possible objects are – living things, abstract things (economy), buildings – almost anything
Transitive
A lizard grows a new tail
An entity grows part of itself
A man grows turnips in his backyard
An active agent causes (other) things to grow
Factor
A factor affects something in some way
This gives us a starter kit.
The two other meanings of ToGrow are ruled out – we don’t have an entity or an active agent. What is left is connected.
We built a relation, then see an acronym
Fibroblast growth factor (FGF)…………
We could have seen
Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI)………….
In one case it is a generic term and each new use will be an invocation, in the other a unique entity. We need to choose which when we add the acronym to the dictionary. We could start with the notion that, if it is all capitalised, it is unique (or there are relatively few and they will be referred to countably, such as the first Anniversary Date).
If someone searches for "fibroblast growth factor", it will be turned into FGF through the normal operation of the dictionary and all the positions found.
What happens when someone searches for "fibroblast"? It would not be easy to find the acronym connection and move to FGF unless it is somehow linked.