body mass index

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Singular
body mass index

Plural
body mass indices

body mass index (plural body mass indices)

a statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height, used to estimate if a person is underweight or overweight. BMI units are defined as $kg / m 2$ ≈ $703 * lb / in 2$ .

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Finnish: painoindeksi

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