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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:blood glucose level
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Accession:CMO:0000046 term browser browse the term
Definition:Measurement of the amount of glucose, the monosaccharide sugar, C6H12O6, occurring widely in plant and animal tissues which is one of the three dietary monosaccharides that are absorbed directly into the bloodstream during digestion, is the end product of carbohydrate metabolism, and is the chief source of energy for living organisms, in a specified volume of blood, the fluid that circulates through the heart, arteries, capillaries and veins carrying nutrients and oxygen to the body tissues and metabolites away from them.
Synonyms:narrow_synonym: fasting blood glucose measurement
 broad_synonym: glucose measurement
 xref: EFO:0004465;   EFO:0004468



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    blood measurement 0
      blood chemistry measurement 0
        blood glucose level 0
          calculated blood glucose level + 0
          plasma glucose level + 0
          serum glucose level + 0
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