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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:pituitary gland morphological measurement
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Accession:CMO:0000614 term browser browse the term
Definition:Measurement of the physical form or structure of the pituitary gland, the small, oval endocrine gland attached to the base of the vertebrate brain and consisting of an anterior and posterior lobe, the secretions of which control the other endocrine glands and influence growth, metabolism, and maturation.



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    body morphological measurement 0
      organ morphological measurement 0
        pituitary gland morphological measurement 0
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          pituicyte count 0
          pituitary gland weight + 0
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    endocrine/exocrine system measurement 0
      endocrine gland measurement 0
        pituitary gland measurement 0
          pituitary gland morphological measurement 0
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            pituicyte count 0
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