body mass index

English

Noun

body mass index (plural body mass indexes or body mass indices)

1. 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 $\mathrm {kg} /\mathrm {m} ^{2}$ ≈ $\mathrm {703*lb} /\mathrm {in} ^{2}$.

Synonyms

• Quetelet index, BMI (initialism)

Coordinate terms

• ponderal index

Translations

the measure of the weight in comparison with the height of a person

• Estonian: kehamassiindeks (et)
• Finnish: painoindeksi (fi)
• French: indice de masse corporelle (fr) m, IMC (fr) m
• German: Körpermasseindex m, Körpermassezahl f
• Greek: δείκτης μάζας σώματος m (deíktis mázas sómatos), ΔΜΣ m (DMS)
• Hungarian: testtömegindex (hu)
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• Indonesian: indeks massa tubuh
• Malay: indeks jisim badan, indeks jisim tubuh
• Portuguese: índice de massa corporal (pt) m
• Romanian: indice de masă corporală, indice de greutate corporală m
• Swedish: kroppsmasseindex n, BMI (sv) n