diff --git a/src/ontology/pato-edit.obo b/src/ontology/pato-edit.obo
index 6be378f3..a1540da1 100644
--- a/src/ontology/pato-edit.obo
+++ b/src/ontology/pato-edit.obo
@@ -19468,6 +19468,14 @@ is_a: PATO:0000052 ! shape
 relationship: has_part PATO:0000404 ! coiled
 relationship: has_part PATO:0002212 ! slender
 
+[Term]
+id: PATO:0015006
+name: polymeric
+definition: "A quality inhering in a structure by virtue of it consisting of many of repeated, similar or identical subunits, arranged in some orderly array." [https://github.com/pato-ontology/pato/issues/78, GOC:DOS]
+comment: A complete coverage of this domain would subclasses homopolymeric, copolymeric, crystalline.
+subset: value_slim
+is_a: PATO:0000141 ! structure
+
 [Term]
 id: PATO:0020000
 name: genotypic sex