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).
Any quantitative measurement of death, mortality or fatality occuring in the direct progeny of a parent or parents. Death is defined as the cessation of all vital functions of the body. Death of the offspring during embryonic/fetal development may result in resorption, mummification or discharge to the exterior.