The growth chart had slipped from the playroom wall because the tape on its comers had become dry and brittle.

He seems to have been determined to outdo his father's early weight growth charts and has been thriving in his first eight weeks.

Deficiencies are documented when height or weight falls at or below the 10th percentile of standardized growth charts appropriate to the patient's population.

As such, growth charts have been created to describe the expected growth patterns of several genetic diseases.

In a person's youth, growth charts that track height can be used to diagnose subtle forms of dwarfism that have no other striking physical characteristics.