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11total body water — (TBW) any of various estimates of the water content of the human body, taking into consideration the person s height, weight, and age; used in urea kinetic modeling calculations …
12total-body irradiation — Radiation therapy to the entire body. It is usually followed by bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplantation …
13Body shaping — Body contouring is a general term that refers to any surgical procedure that alters different areas of the body, whether it is in a massive weight loss patient or not. Body contouring after massive weight loss refers to a series of procedures… …
14total clearance — total body clearance the total clearance of a substance via all the organs of the body. Cf. hepatic c. and renal c …
15Body fat percentage — A person s body mass percentage is the total weight of the person s fat divided by the person s weight and consists of essential body fat and storage body fat. Essential body fat is necessary to maintain life and reproductive functions. The… …
16Body water — In medicine, body water is all of the water content of the human body. A significant fraction of the human body is water. Lean muscle tissue contains about 75% water. Blood contains 95% water, body fat contains 14% water and bone has 22%… …
17Body composition — This article is about the body s contents of fat, bone, and muscle. For the chemical composition of the human body, see Composition of the human body. In physical fitness, body composition is used to describe the percentages of fat, bone and… …
18total — 01. The [total] number of students in the English Language Program is about 250. 02. The movie we went to last night was [totally] unreal. You ve got to see it. 03. The [total] of 5 plus 8 is 13. 04. Hundreds of stolen CDs, [totaling] over… …
19body mass index — ▪ medicine an estimate of total body fat. The BMI is defined as weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in metres: weight height2 = BMI. This number, which is central to determining whether an individual is clinically defined as… …
20Body mass index (BMI) — A key index for relating body weight to height. The BMI is a person s weight in kilograms (kg) divided by their height in meters (m) squared. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) now defines normal weight, overweight, and obesity according to… …
