body mass index
English
editNoun
editbody mass index (plural body mass indexes or body mass indices)
- A statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height, used to estimate if a person is underweight or overweight. BMI units are defined as ≈ .
Synonyms
edit- Quetelet index, BMI (initialism)
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editthe measure of the weight in comparison with the height of a person
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