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CLINICAL MEASUREMENT - ANNOTATIONS

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Term:calculated weight of islet beta cells in splenic region of pancreas
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Accession:CMO:0001819 term browser browse the term
Definition:A measurement, which has been normalized, adjusted or derived by a mathematical process or computation, of the weight (the heaviness or the force with which an object is drawn toward the earth by gravity) of the islet beta cells in the tail region of the pancreas (that is, the portion of the pancreas which lies furthest from the major pancreatic duct and closest to the spleen, the highly vascular lymphoid organ which serves to store blood, disintegrate old blood cells, filter foreign substances from the blood, and produce lymphocytes). The pancreas is the elongated, racemose gland containing both endocrine and exocrine elements which secretes hormones such as insulin and glucagon internally and digestive enzymes externally. A pancreatic islet is a small encapsulated region of the pancreas containing endocrine (i.e., hormone-producing) cells. An islet beta cell is a membrane-enclosed protoplasmic mass constituting the smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, which is found in a pancreatic islet and produces the hormones insulin and amylin.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: calculated weight of islet beta cells in the tail region of pancreas
 related_synonym: calculated islet beta cell mass of splenic region of pancreas



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  clinical measurement 2369
    body morphological measurement 733
      organ morphological measurement 286
        pancreas morphological measurement 4
          pancreatic islet morphological measurement 1
            pancreatic islet weight 0
              calculated pancreatic islet weight 0
                calculated total pancreatic islet beta cell weight 0
                  calculated weight of islet beta cells in splenic region of pancreas 0
                    splenic region pancreatic beta cell weight calculated as the product of pancreas splenic region weight and corresponding beta cell fractional area 0
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