BODY WEIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does body weight mean? 

• BODY WEIGHT (noun)
  The noun BODY WEIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the weight of a person's body

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODY WEIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The weight of a person's body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("body weight" is a kind of...):

weight (the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity)

Attribute:

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)

lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body weight"):

reporting weight (a person's body weight (as an athlete's) at the beginning of the season (when first reporting for practice))

 Context examples 

The terminology that includes concepts relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard for the Exchange of Non-clinical Data (SEND) body weight gain test names.

(CDISC SEND Body Weight Gain Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

The terminology that includes concepts relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard for the Exchange of Non-clinical Data (SEND) body weight gain test short names.

(CDISC SEND Body Weight Gain Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

The terminology that includes concepts relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard for the Exchange of Non-clinical Data (SEND) body weight test short names.

(CDISC SEND Body Weight Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

The terminology that includes concepts relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard for the Exchange of Non-clinical Data (SEND) body weight test names.

(CDISC SEND Body Weight Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in body weight homeostasis and cellular proliferation.

(CEBPA Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Cannabis may help treat the symptoms of cancer or the side effects of cancer treatment, such as nausea and vomiting, pain, and cachexia (loss of body weight and muscle mass).

(Cannabis, NCI Dictionary)

Canagliflozin is also able to reduce body weight and has a low risk for hypoglycemia.

(Canagliflozin, NCI Thesaurus)

This is most commonly shown as the difference between two consecutive body weight measurements.

(Body Weight Gain Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

In earlier studies, the research group found and replicated an interaction between dietary fat and a genetic variant of APOA2 for the outcome of body weight.

(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A measurement of the body weight of a subject.

(Body Weight Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)