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:
measurement of voluntary locomotion in an experimental apparatus
Any measurement of the movement of an organism from one place to another in a piece of technical equipment or machinery, or in an appliance or device designed for a particular purpose (especially such a movement accomplished by the action of appendages such as flagella, limbs, or wings) originated, undertaken, controlled, or accomplished as a result of free will or choice.