calculated apoptotic body measurement calculated liver tumorous lesion measurement ratio of apoptotic bodies to intact tumor cells in remodelling liver tumorous lesions 2014-03-03T17:56:04Z A calculated measurement in which the number of apoptotic bodies found in a specified sample of remodelling liver tumorous lesions is divided by the number of viable neoplastic hepatocytes in the same sample, and the result presented as a ratio, fraction, quotient or percentage. Remodeling tumorous lesions are lesions which are or have the potential to become tumors (neoplasms or new growths of tissue in which cell multiplication is more or less uncontrolled and progressive) but which display a remodeling phenotype, that is, a progressive decrease in biochemical marker expression and growth rate, and finally complete regression. An apoptotic body is a small sealed membrane vesicle that is produced from cells undergoing cell death by apoptosis. CMO:0002172 MESH:D009365 VT:0010547 clinical_measurement_ontology jsmith ratio of apoptotic bodies to intact tumor cells in remodelling liver neoplastic nodules