# OnCo record body-composition (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/body-composition/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "body-composition" ;
  schema:name "Body composition (lean mass, fat mass, visceral fat)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Skeletal muscle index"@en, "L3 muscle area"@en, "Visceral adiposity"@en ;
  schema:description "What a person's weight is made of: muscle, fat under the skin, fat around the organs. It predicts cancer outcomes far better than weight or BMI, and can be read from routine CT scans."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/body-composition/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_composition> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4116368> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_composition> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio2-ai-sarcopenia-from-ct/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/nutrition-screening-mnt/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/resistance-training-cachexia/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/ct/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/radiology-ai-screening/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/sarcopenia/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/cachexia/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/obesity-related-cancers/> .