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Descriptor English: Anthropometry
Descriptor Spanish: Antropometría
Descriptor antropometría
Scope note: Técnica de medida del tamaño, peso y proporciones del cuerpo humano o de otros primates.
Descriptor Portuguese: Antropometria
Descriptor French: Anthropométrie
Entry term(s): Morphometrics
Tree number(s): E01.370.600.024
E05.041
N06.850.505.200.100
SP6.270.233.111
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000886
Scope note: The technique that deals with the measurement of the size, weight, and proportions of the human or other primate body.
Annotation: primate only; consider also specific terms under BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Allowable Qualifiers: HI history
IS instrumentation
MT methods
Related: Body Composition MeSH
Body Weights and Measures MeSH
DeCS ID: 27937
Unique ID: D000886
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Anthropometry - Preferred
Concept UI M0001322
Scope note The technique that deals with the measurement of the size, weight, and proportions of the human or other primate body.
Preferred term Anthropometry
Entry term(s) Morphometrics



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