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).
Any measurement of fluid, cells and/or other substances that have been slowly exuded, or discharged, from tissues, cells or blood vessels and deposited within tissues or on tissue surfaces as a result of inflammation, a usually localized, protective reaction of tissue to irritation, injury or infection, characterized by pain, redness, swelling and sometimes loss of function.