body mass index

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

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)

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