Acquired generalized lipodystrophy
In this measurement, skinfold thickness of less than 10mm for men and 22mm for women at the anterior thigh is suggestive cutoff ... Caliper measurements of skinfold thickness is recommended to quantify fat loss as a supportive information. ...
Body fat percentage
Durnin JV, Womersley J (July 1974). "Body fat assessed from total body density and its estimation from skinfold thickness: ... The skinfold estimation methods are based on a skinfold test, also known as a pinch test, whereby a pinch of skin is precisely ... Because most anthropometric formulas such as the Durnin-Womersley skinfold method, the Jackson-Pollock skinfold method, and the ... "Skinfold thickness measurements are better predictors of body fat percentage than body mass index in male Spanish children and ...
Paul Deurenberg
"Body fat assessed from total body density and its estimation from skinfold thickness: measurements on 481 men and women aged ...
Anthropometry of the upper arm
Nutritional factors include zinc intake, which has been shown to have effects on both the triceps skin fold thickness and the ... It is measured using skinfold calipers. (See body fat percentage#Skinfold methods for general information on skinfold fat ... The skinfold calipers are spring-loaded. Holtain skinfold calipers are marked with 0.2 mm gradation, and Lange calipers with ... However, the relationship between measurements of subcutaneous fat in skinfolds, such as the triceps skinfold, and deep body ...
William S. Laughlin
ISBN 87-89384-85-7 Gilberg, R., Jørgensen, J. Balslev, & Laughlin, William S. Anthropometrical and skinfold thickness ...
Epidemiology of obesity
... skinfold thicknesses, and bioelectrical impedance. The rate of obesity increases with age at least up to 50 or 60 years old. ...
Skin temperature
... lowered skinfold thickness (contributes to significantly greater surface temperature variation during exercise) and local ...
Lipodystrophy
Using a skinfold caliper to measure skinfold thickness in various parts of the body or a total body composition scan using Dual ...
Anthropometric measurement of the developing fetus
... skin fold thickness, mandibular breadth including the height of the upper and the lower limbs can be co-related to the mother ... dermatological observations like skin thickness etc. are measured individually to assess the growth and development of the ...
List of MeSH codes (G07)
... skinfold thickness MeSH G07.290.100.960 - waist-hip ratio MeSH G07.290.250 - disease susceptibility MeSH G07.290.800 - ...
List of MeSH codes (E01)
... skinfold thickness MeSH E01.370.600.115.100.960 - waist-hip ratio MeSH E01.370.600.115.800 - somatotypes MeSH E01.370.600.120 ...
Classification of obesity
The first is the skinfold test, in which a pinch of skin is precisely measured to determine the thickness of the subcutaneous ...
Body composition
A common skin fold method is by using gun style calipers to measure the thickness of subcutaneous fat in multiple places on the ... Body composition can also be measured using the skin fold test, which is performed using a measuring caliper. It can be done in ... Ultrasound has also been used to measure subcutaneous fat thickness, and by using multiple points an estimation of body ... Ultrasound has the advantage of being able to also directly measure muscle thickness and quantify intramuscular fat. ...
Overweight
Skinfold calipers or "pinch test" The skin at several specific points on the body is pinched and the thickness of the resulting ... This measures the thickness of the layers of fat located under the skin, from which a general measurement of total amount of ...
Pinch (action)
Body fat percentage can be determined the skinfold test, in which a pinch of skin is precisely measured by calipers at several ... standardized points on the body to determine the subcutaneous fat layer thickness. These measurements are converted to an ...
Shropshire sheep
... skin folds in neck area; long, large or drooping ears, thick skinned or coarse; coarse or Roman nose; jet-black face and leg ... moderate thickness, colour same as face and legs, cinnamon to dark brown or soft black. Rounded tips, wool covering outside ear ...
Greater blue-ringed octopus
It was also found that the iridophores are nicely tucked into the modified skin folds, kind of like pouches, which could be ... A black line, with thickness varying to increase contrast and visibility, borders the electric blue circles. The blue rings are ...
Mylodon
Its thickness is up to 1.5 cm in some places, but it is usually around 1 cm. The skin is densely covered with stiff, slightly ... but are always separated from one another by individual skin folds. In accordance with the armadillos' shells, the bone ... This bone, too, was clearly flat with a thickness that was only half the value of the width at the shaft. The fibula is so far ... Here the width was about 18 cm, the thickness about 7.5 cm. The joint ends, on the other hand, were markedly wider, around 30 ...
Waist-hip ratio
Ketel IJ, Volman MN, Seidell JC, Stehouwer CD, Twisk JW, Lambalk CB (June 2007). "Superiority of skinfold measurements and ... hormone deficiency is associated with an adverse cardiovascular risk profile and increased carotid intima-medial thickness". ...
Cheek reconstruction
The advantages of this flap is that there is no need to skin graft the donor site and scars are placed at the natural skin ... Advantages of the PMF is that the platysma flap has an appropriate thickness, minimal donor- site morbidity, acceptable scar ... Potential disadvantages are the mismatch of colour, texture, facial shape and thickness. Whereas a multitude of free flaps are ...
Animal clitoris
... and is held by the skin folds on each side of the groove". Because spider monkeys of South America have pendulous and erectile ... genitalia by its greater thickness and more rounded glans. The female possesses no external vagina, as the labia are fused to ...
Clitoris
... and is held by the skin folds on each side of the groove". Because spider monkeys of South America have pendulous and erectile ... genitalia by its greater thickness and more rounded glans. The female possesses no external vagina, as the labia are fused to ...
Skin cancer
There are two forms of skin grafting: split thickness and full thickness. In a split thickness skin graft, a shaver is used to ... If the repair is made along a natural skin fold or wrinkle line, the scar will be hardly visible. Larger defects may require ... Full thickness skin grafts are more acceptable cosmetically. However, full thickness grafts can only be used for small or ... In a full thickness skin graft, a segment of skin is totally removed and the donor site needs to be sutured closed. Split ...
Vulva
A subtype of psoriasis, an autoimmune disease, is inverse psoriasis in which red patches can appear in the skin folds of the ... The labia minora increase considerably in thickness. The labia minora sometimes change considerably in color, going from pink ...
Breast reduction
The thickness of the hypodermis (adipocyte cells) varies from woman to woman, and body part. The skin of the nipple and areola ... in order to avoid redundant skin folds, especially in the reduction of very oversized breasts. The woman is instructed to ...
Body mass index
BMI provides a simple numeric measure of a person's thickness or thinness, allowing health professionals to discuss weight ... as determined by such techniques as skinfold measurements or underwater weighing and the limitations of manual measurement have ...
Chest radiograph
The inferior skin folds of the supraclavicular fossa may give the impression of a periosteal reaction of the clavicle While ... Diagnosis is aided by noting: wall thickness wall outline changes in the surrounding lung The causes include: cancer infarct ( ...