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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 (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:cataract incidence/prevalence measurement
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Accession:CMO:0001585 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any measurement in which the number of individuals in a study population that display cataract at a point in time or develop cataract within a determined period of time are compared to the total number of individuals in the study population. Often expressed as a percentage but could be expressed as a ratio. A cataract is an opacity of the crystalline lens of the eye or its capsule.


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