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 into, out of or within a discrete space in an experimental apparatus
Any measurement of the movement of an organism from one place to another into, out of or within a distinct and specified area of an experimental apparatus (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.