obophenotype-user
commented
14 years ago There are enough annotations to warrant the addition of the following terms:
id: MP:0010225 name: abnormal quadriceps morphology id: MP:0010226 name: increased quadriceps weight id: MP:0010227 name: decreased quadriceps weight
Weight and mass are not the same thing. Weight /can/ be a measure mass but not always. Consider a filled hot air balloon. It has mass but not weight. In biology, unfortunately these terms are often confounded. I usually just go with what the author says.
I can add terms for increased/decreased skeletal muscle weight if we think we need them.
Original comment by: cindyJax
I was going to double annotate a change in quadricep weight to both decreased muscle weight [MP:0004232] and decreased skeletal muscle mass [MP:0004819] however these two terms are not related to each other directly and perhaps should be? Also mass vs weight, should we be consistent in the MP in the use of the terms mass and weight?
Reported by: jbubier
Original Ticket: obo/mammalian-phenotype-requests/707