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A growth chart is used by pediatricians and other health care providers to follow a child's growth over time. Growth charts have been constructed by observing the growth of large numbers of healthy children over time. The height, weight, and head circumference of a child can be compared to the expected parameters of children of the same age and ...
Weight and height percentile. Weight and height percentiles are determined by growth charts and body mass index charts to compare a child's measurements with those of other children in the same age group. By doing this, doctors can track a child's growth over time and monitor how a child is growing in relation to other children.
Obstetrics, pediatrics. Large for gestational age ( LGA) is a term used to describe infants that are born with an abnormally high weight, specifically in the 90th percentile or above, compared to other babies of the same developmental age. [1] [2] [3] Macrosomia is a similar term that describes excessive birth weight, but refers to an absolute ...
Bone age is the degree of a person's skeletal development. In children, bone age serves as a measure of physiological maturity and aids in the diagnosis of growth abnormalities, endocrine disorders, and other medical conditions. [1] [2] [3] As a person grows from fetal life through childhood, puberty, and finishes growth as a young adult, the ...
A related term is low birth weight, defined as an infant with a birth weight (that is, mass at the time of birth) of less than 2500 g (5 lb 8 oz), regardless of gestational age at the time of birth. Other related terms include "very low birth weight", which is less than 1500 g, and "extremely low birth weight", which is less than 1000 g.
Birth weight is the body weight of a baby at their birth. [1] The average birth weight in babies of European and African descent is 3.5 kilograms (7.7 lb), with the normative range between 2.5 and 4.0 kilograms (5.5 and 8.8 lb). [2] On average, babies of Asian descent weigh about 3.25 kilograms (7.2 lb). [3] [4] The prevalence of low birth ...
The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (version 4 was released September 2019) is a standard series of measurements originally developed by psychologist Nancy Bayley used primarily to assess the development of infants and toddlers, ages 1–42 months. [1] This measure consists of a series of developmental play tasks and takes ...
Human body weight. The Corpulence Index ( CI) (also Ponderal Index ( PI) or Rohrer's Index) is a measure of corpulence, or of leanness in other variants, of a person [1] calculated as a relationship between mass and height. [2] It was first proposed in 1921 as the "Corpulence measure" by Swiss physician Fritz Rohrer [3] [4] and hence is also ...