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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:liver measurement
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Accession:CMO:0001064 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any measurement, morphological or physiological, involving the liver or any part thereof. The liver is the large, dark-red organ located in the cranial portion of the abdomen of vertebrates, just behind or below the diaphragm, the functions of which include storage and filtration of blood; secretion of bile; detoxification of noxious substances; conversion of sugars into glycogen; synthesis and breakdown of fats and temporary storage of fatty acids; and synthesis of serum proteins.


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  clinical measurement 0
    organ measurement 0
      liver measurement 0
        liver lesion measurement + 0
        liver lipid measurement + 0
        liver mineral measurement + 0
        liver morphological measurement + 0
        liver physiological measurement + 0
        liver protein/peptide measurement + 0
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