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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 (https://rgd.mcw.edu/rgdweb/contact/contactus.html).

Term:serum total cholesterol level
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Accession:CMO:0000363 term browser browse the term
Definition:Measurement of the entire amount of cholesterol, a eukaryotic sterol that in higher animals is the precursor of bile acids and steroid hormones and a key constituent of cell membranes, without taking into account any association with other molecules such as lipoproteins, in a specified volume of serum, the clear liquid that separates from blood after it has clotted completely, i.e. blood plasma from which fibrinogen has been removed.
Synonyms:related_synonym: serum TC level



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  clinical measurement 0
    blood measurement 0
      blood chemistry measurement 0
        blood protein measurement 0
          blood lipoprotein measurement 0
            blood lipoprotein level 0
              blood total cholesterol level 0
                serum total cholesterol level 0
                  serum high density lipoprotein cholesterol level to serum total cholesterol level ratio 0
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