The clinical measurement, measurement method and experimental condition ontologies: expansion, improvements and new applications

Table 2 Expansion of the scope of the clinical measurement ontology

	Original branches of the CMO:	New branches added to the CMO:
Organ systems:
	Cardiovascular system	Alimentary/gastrointestinal system
	Liver/biliary system	Endocrine/exocrine system
	Renal/urinary system	Musculoskeletal system
	Reproduction	Nervous system
	Respiratory system	Skin
		Immune system
Other branches:
	Blood measurement	Body movement measurement
	Body morphological measurement	Chemical response/sensitivity measurement
	Body temperature	Disease population measurement (incidence/prevalence)
	Cell measurement	Disease process measurement (onset/diagnosis, progression, severity)
	Consumption measurement	Exudate measurement
	Growth measurement	Mortality/survival measurement
	Tissue composition measurement	Organ measurement
	Tumor measurement

Table 2 lists all of the direct children of the parent CMO term “clinical measurement” as of July 2013, v2.5. These are divided into the list of terms that existed at the time of the original publication of the ontology on the left and those which have subsequently been added to the ontology on the right. Increases in the scope of the CMO have almost doubled the number of direct subclasses of the parent.

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