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skin fold Med.
Also skin-fold, skinfold.
[f. skin n. + fold n.3]
A fold of skin and underlying fat formed by pinching, as a measure of nutritional status; freq. attrib., as skinfold thickness; skinfold cal(l)iper(s), a pair of callipers for measuring the thickness of such a fold.
1921Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthrop. IV. 224 For the estimate of the quantity of the skin and of the subcutaneous fat, the writer uses the thickness of the skin fold on the upper arm, above the biceps; on the forearm..and on the abdomen. 1950Nutrition Abstr. & Rev. XX. 250 Pinching a skinfold to obtain a rough estimate of the thickness of the subcutaneous adipose tissue and, by inference, of the fatness or leanness of a subject, is an old clinical procedure. 1954Jrnl. Lab. & Clin. Med. XLIII. 969 The skinfold thickness is read to the nearest half millimeter on the slide scale. Ibid. 970 A skinfold caliper..which is easily manipulated with one hand. 1961L. Martin Clin. Endocrinol. (ed. 3) ii. 54 Measurements by skin-fold calipers have shown that from birth until three months..there is a rapid increase in fat deposition. 1973Times 17 May 20/1 Using skinfold calipers, designed by and for doctors working on obesity, the thickness of the fat layer at four sites on the body is measured. 1977Lancet 1 Jan. 17/2 Skinfold thickness measurements provide a non-invasive and reproducible means of measuring subcutaneous fat in newborn babies. |