body mass index

== English == === Noun === body mass index (plural body mass indexes or 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 k g / m 2 {\displaystyle \mathrm {kg} /\mathrm {m} ^{2}} ≈ 703 ∗ l b / i n 2 {\displaystyle \mathrm {703*lb} /\mathrm {in} ^{2}} . ==== Synonyms ==== Quetelet index, BMI (initialism) ==== Coordinate terms ==== ponderal index ==== Related terms ==== bodymass (body mass) ==== Translations ====