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).
A procedure or technique by which the size of the three dimensional space occupied by a liquid substance is ascertained using a pipette, a glass or transparent plastic tube used in measuring or transferring relatively small quantities of liquids.