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).
The manner, procedure or technique by which a morphological or physiological state or property in an isolated body part is assessed and a quantitative or qualitative value assigned. An isolated body part is a subdivision of the material or physical structure of an organism, such as an organ, extremity or tissue, after it has been removed from the body.