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Human body weight, the Glossary

Index Human body weight

Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.[1]

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  1. 62 relations: Advanced Pediatric Life Support, Africa, Anthropometry, Asia, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Bergmann's rule, Birth weight, BMC Public Health, Body mass index, Boxing, Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Broselow tape, Caribbean, Classification of obesity, Clearance (pharmacology), Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, Emaciation, England, Europe, Habit (biology), History of anthropometry, Human height, Human thermoregulation, International Journal of Epidemiology, Judo, Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Latin America, List of heaviest people, Mass versus weight, Metabolism, Mixed martial arts, North America, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Obesity, Oceania, Olympic weightlifting, Overweight, Pan American Health Organization, Parent, Pharmacokinetics, Powerlifting, Public Health Nutrition, Rowing (sport), Sambo (martial art), San José, Costa Rica, Set point theory, State Statistics Service of Ukraine, The Daily Telegraph, Underweight, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, ... Expand index (12 more) »

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Advanced Pediatric Life Support

Advanced Pediatric Life Support (APLS) is a program created by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Physicians to teach health care providers how to take care of sick children.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Anthropometry

Anthropometry refers to the measurement of the human individual.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is an Australian Government agency that collects and analyses statistics on economic, population, environmental, and social issues to advise the Australian Government.

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Bergmann's rule

Bergmann's rule is an ecogeographical rule that states that, within a broadly distributed taxonomic clade, populations and species of larger size are found in colder environments, while populations and species of smaller size are found in warmer regions.

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Birth weight

Birth weight is the body weight of a baby at their birth.

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BMC Public Health

BMC Public Health is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that covers epidemiology of disease and various aspects of public health.

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Body mass index

Body mass index (BMI) is a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person. Human body weight and Body mass index are Mathematics in medicine.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.

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Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall.

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Broselow tape

The Broselow Tape, also called the Broselow pediatric emergency tape, is a color-coded length-based tape measure that is used throughout the world for pediatric emergencies.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Classification of obesity

Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect on health.

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Clearance (pharmacology)

In pharmacology, clearance (Cl_) is a pharmacokinetic parameter representing the efficiency of drug elimination.

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Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, or DEXA) is a means of measuring bone mineral density (BMD) using spectral imaging.

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Emaciation

Emaciation is defined as the state of extreme thinness from absence of body fat and muscle wasting usually resulting from malnutrition.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Habit (biology)

Habit, equivalent to habitus in some applications in biology, refers variously to aspects of behaviour or structure, as follows.

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History of anthropometry

The history of anthropometry includes its use as an early tool of anthropology, use for identification, use for the purposes of understanding human physical variation in paleoanthropology and in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits. Human body weight and history of anthropometry are anthropometry.

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Human height

Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. Human body weight and human height are anthropometry and Mathematics in medicine.

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Human thermoregulation

As in other mammals, human thermoregulation is an important aspect of homeostasis.

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International Journal of Epidemiology

The International Journal of Epidemiology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in epidemiology.

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Judo

is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.

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Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and featured 368 judoka competing for 14 gold medals with seven different weight categories in both the men's and women's competitions.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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List of heaviest people

This is a list of the heaviest people who have been weighed and verified, living and dead.

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Mass versus weight

In common usage, the mass of an object is often referred to as its weight, though these are in fact different concepts and quantities.

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Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.

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Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Norwegian Institute of Public Health

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) (Norwegian: Folkehelseinstituttet; FHI) is a Norwegian government agency and research institute, and is Norway's national public health institute.

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Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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Olympic weightlifting

Weightlifting (often known as Olympic weightlifting) is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with the aim of successfully lifting the heaviest weights.

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Overweight

Being overweight is having more body fat than is optimally healthy.

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Pan American Health Organization

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) in charge of international health cooperation in the Americas.

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Parent

A parent is either the progenitor of a child or, in humans, it can refer to a caregiver or legal guardian, generally called an adoptive parent or step-parent.

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Pharmacokinetics

Pharmacokinetics (from Ancient Greek pharmakon "drug" and kinetikos "moving, putting in motion"; see chemical kinetics), sometimes abbreviated as PK, is a branch of pharmacology dedicated to describing how the body affects a specific substance after administration.

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Powerlifting

Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.

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Public Health Nutrition

Public Health Nutrition is a monthly peer-reviewed public health journal covering nutrition-related public health topics.

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Rowing (sport)

Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars.

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Sambo (martial art)

Sambo (сaмбо) is a martial art with Soviet origins, an internationally practised combat sport, and a recognized style of amateur wrestling included by UWW in the World Wrestling Championships along with Graeco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling.

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San José, Costa Rica

San José (meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name.

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Set point theory

Set point theory, as it pertains to human body weight, states that there is a biological control method in humans that actively regulates weight towards a predetermined set weight for each individual.

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State Statistics Service of Ukraine

State Statistics Committee of Ukraine (Державний Комітет Статистики України, Derzhavnyi Komitet Statystyky Ukrainy) is the government agency responsible for collection and dissemination of statistics in Ukraine.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Underweight

An underweight person is a person whose body weight is considered too low to be healthy.

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United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio 2012, Rio+20, or Earth Summit 2012 was the third international conference on sustainable development aimed at reconciling the economic and environmental goals of the global community.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Weighing scale

A scale or balance is a device used to measure weight or mass.

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Weight

In science and engineering, the weight of an object, is the force acting on the object due to acceleration of gravity.

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Weight class (boxing)

In boxing, a weight class is a measurement weight range for boxers.

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Weight cutting

Weight cutting is the practice of fast weight loss prior to a sporting competition.

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Weight gain

Weight gain is an increase in body weight.

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Weight loss

Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health, or physical fitness, refers to a reduction of the total body mass, by a mean loss of fluid, body fat (adipose tissue), or lean mass (namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon, and other connective tissue).

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Weight phobia

The term weight phobia might refer or relate to.

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World

The world is the totality of entities, the whole of reality, or everything that exists.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.

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Wrestling

Wrestling is a martial art and combat sport that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset.

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Wrestling weight classes

In most styles of wrestling, opponents are matched based on weight class.

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See also

Anthropometry

Mathematics in medicine

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight

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