The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
a reduction in the rate at which red blood cells (RBCs) descend under the influence of gravity in a vertical column of anticoagulated whole blood over a period of one hour; a decreased rate may be seen in polycythemia or in certain blood diseases in which RBCs have an irregular or smaller shape that causes slower settling