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CLINICAL MEASUREMENT - ANNOTATIONS

The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO), Measurement Methods Ontology (MMO), and Experimental Condition Ontology (XCO) are currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about these vocabularies please see Shimoyama et al. Three ontologies to define phenotype measurement data. Front Genet. 2012;3:87. Epub 2012 May 28 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:skin fold thickness
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Accession:CMO:0000246 term browser browse the term
Definition:This measurement is made on the layer of skin and subcutaneous fat raised by pinching the skin and letting the underlying muscle fall back to the bone. It is often used to estimate percentage of body fat.



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  clinical measurement 2369
    skin measurement 0
      skin morphological measurement 0
        skin fold thickness 0
          skin fold thickness, bicep 0
          skin fold thickness, subscapular 0
          skin fold thickness, suprailiac 0
          skin fold thickness, tricep 0
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