BODY MASS INDEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does body mass index mean? 

• BODY MASS INDEX (noun)
  The noun BODY MASS INDEX has 1 sense:

1. a measure of someone's weight in relation to height; to calculate one's BMI, multiply one's weight in pounds and divide that by the square of one's height in inches; overweight is a BMI greater than 25; obese is a BMI greater than 30

  Familiarity information: BODY MASS INDEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODY MASS INDEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A measure of someone's weight in relation to height; to calculate one's BMI, multiply one's weight in pounds and divide that by the square of one's height in inches; overweight is a BMI greater than 25; obese is a BMI greater than 30

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

BMI; body mass index

Hypernyms ("body mass index" is a kind of...):

index; index number; indicant; indicator (a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time)

 Context examples 

AUCTAU divided by TAU and then divided by the body mass index.

(Average Concentration Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) extrapolated to infinity, based on the last predicted excretion rate, divided by the body mass index.

(AURC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) extrapolated to infinity, based on the last observed excretion rate, divided by the body mass index.

(AURC Infinity Observed Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The concentration at the Nth dose divided by the body mass index.

(Concentration After the Nth Dose by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The concentration divided by body mass index.

(Concentration Divided by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

Minutes times femtograms per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by kilograms per meter squared (body mass index).

(Minute Times Femtogram per Milliliter per Kilogram per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The minimum concentration between dose time and dose time plus Tau (at Tmin) divided by the body mass index.

(Minimum Concentration Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

Days times femtograms per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by kilograms per meter squared (body mass index).

(Day Times Femtogram per Milliliter per Kilogram per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) over the interval from T1 to T2 divided by the body mass index.

(AURC from T1 to T2 Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) from time zero to the last measurable rate, divided by the body mass index.

(AURC Dosing to Last Concentration Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)