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EXPERIMENTAL CONDITION - 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:forced feeding
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Accession:XCO:0000580 term browser browse the term
Definition:This is any condition in which the main influencing factor is the administration of food or drug by force, especially to a laboratory animal, typically through a tube leading down the throat to the stomach.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: gavage



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