Terminology Service for NFDI4Health
killing
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A protocol application in which an organism is intentionally put to death
Term info
Label
killing
alternative term
life termination, euthanisia, sacrifice, death status type
definition source
CEBS, Biomaterial_branch
editor note
difficult to place this properly - JG. Death process (e.g. unscheduled death) is out of scope but should be added somewhere. All killings have death process as a part, but not all death processes are part of a killing.
editor preferred term
killing
example of usage
Terminal sacrifice of animals by cervical dislocation at the end of an investigation.
has curation status
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000125
term editor
Philippe Rocca-Serra, Jennifer Fostel
Term relations
Subclass of:
- material processing
- achieves_planned_objective some material transformation objective
- has_specified_input some (
organism and
has quality some alive) - has_specified_output some (
organism and
has quality some dead)