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).
Any quantitative measurement of death, mortality or fatality in an individual or study population. Death is defined as the cessation of all vital functions of the body including the heartbeat, brain activity (including the brain stem), and breathing.