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New ontology term request (HCA) - vacuum aspiration #60

Closed ami-day closed 3 years ago

ami-day commented 4 years ago

For new term requests, please provide the following information:

Preferred term label

vacuum aspiration

Synonyms

-aspiration -suction aspiration

Textual definition

Vacuum or suction aspiration uses aspiration to remove uterine contents through the cervix. It may be used as a method of induced abortion, a therapeutic procedure used after miscarriage, or a procedure to obtain a sample for endometrial biopsy (wikipedia).

Suggested parent term

"collecting specimen from organism" http://www.ontobee.org/ontology/OBI?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0600005

Use case

Collection protocol: method of collecting specimen from organism

zoependlington commented 4 years ago

Thanks @ami-day! This term has been added to EFO and therefore will be pulled into HCA ontologies after the next EFO release (July).

For your future reference, here is the ID: EFO_0010727 | vacuum aspiration