(n.) A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.
(n.) The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.
(n.) A small horizontal brace or girder.
(v. t.) To bind as with a girth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The treatment of lymphedema with SEP and compression stockings is associated with long-term maintenance of reduced limb girth in 90% of patients.
(2) With attention to detail, prosthesis sizing is straightforward using intraoperative determination of corporeal girth and total corporeal length.
(3) In two groups of postmenopausal women aged 55-69 years in the upper midwestern United States, the authors examined the reliability and accuracy of self-measurement by mail questionnaire of waist, hip, upper arm, wrist and calf girths.
(4) By the third trimester the abdominal girth did not increase coincident with the baby's size, vomiting prevented adequate caloric intake, and pelvic pressure from the baby's head caused increasing discomfort.
(5) The simple ratio of waist girth to hip girth can be used to estimate the location of body fat.
(6) These results preclude girth as a reliable clinical indicator of intraperitoneal haemorrhage.
(7) Fasting serum insulin concentrations were significantly associated with percent body fat (Pearson r = 0.45-0.53), waist-to-hip girth ratio (Pearson r = 0.18-0.27), and most of the physiologic risk factors.
(8) Despite anuria and the absence of peripheral edema, 4 h of HWI significantly raised the central venous pressure, diminished the abdominal girth by 5%, and successfully transfered at least 2.4 liters of ascitic fluid to the intravascular space made available to ultrafiltration.
(9) Regression analysis revealed consanguinity-related declines in birthweight, recumbent length, head circumference and chest girth and in gestational period.
(10) Two patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria had increasing abdominal girth and ascites.
(11) Concerns over size and girth do often dominate men's – especially adolescent and younger men's – body image concerns, and comical though it may seem, it causes real distress to some.
(12) Length changes in the TS were presumed from its girth recorded using a mercury-in-silastic gauge wrapped around the muscle belly.
(13) The use of three girth measurements, height, and age enabled us to develop regression equations to predict body density in women that are comparable in accuracy to those using skinfold calipers and, thus, are a viable alternative.
(14) Repeated measures analysis of variance procedures indicated no significant differences consequent to the BDP for any of the variables assessed, with the exception of a small decrease in shoulder girth in both E and C and a small decrease in left breast volume in E. It was concluded that the use of a commercial exercise device with a specific BDP does not result in changes in breast size, shape, or volume.
(15) Arm girth and circumference often leads to difficulties in Blood Pressure (BP) measurement in obese patients.
(16) The constants are presented for estimating the body weight of these breeds from their heart girth and body length under Nsukka conditions.
(17) This increase correlated with the degree of adiposity but not with waist-to-hip girth ratio (WHR).
(18) A 28-year-old black woman presented with increasing abdominal girth and gross hepatomegaly.
(19) Subjects, 482 women, were hydrostatically weighed and circumference (girths) recorded for thigh, hips (buttocks), iliac, and abdomen (mean of abdomen 1 and abdomen 2).
(20) Definitive trends were not evident for differences between the two groups in percent fat, percent SNF, days open, final type classification score, or heart girth.