What's the difference between habitus and physique?

Habitus


Definition:

  • (n.) Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A subgroup of patients who do not have the same genetic inheritance pattern have in addition a Marfanoid habitus and multiple mucosal neuromas.
  • (2) The situations that required nonstandard positioning techniques included stones in the distal or mid ureter, renal transplant, gallbladder or common bile duct, and unusual body habitus, such as myelomenigocele, bilateral lower extremity amputations and children with stones.
  • (3) The only other patient or treatment factor associated with SM was a possible direct correlation with the appearance of a cushingoid body habitus.
  • (4) The boy showed a significant deviation in behaviour pattern and development of body habitus already from early infancy.
  • (5) Predisposing factors in the progression of radiation injury include excessive radiation, underlying cardiovascular disease, fixation of the bowel, and an asthenic habitus.
  • (6) When the volume of electrically participating tissue was estimated from the actual measurement of the height of the thorax and the circumference at the base of the thorax, the variation in SV differences decreased substantially (Sramek equation), although still considerable for clinical use, and there was no relationship between SV thus obtained and body habitus.
  • (7) Chest-wall deformity or Marfanoid habitus were common clinical findings.
  • (8) In 95 fresh and fixed anatomical preparations, peculiarities of topographic-anatomical relations and morphometric indices of magistral arteries and their large branches have been studied in the pelvic girdle and a free hind extremity in mongrel dogs according to the type of their habitus.
  • (9) The phenotype was distinctive in that the habitus was female in character, but partial fusion of the labioscrotal folds, testes, and male wolffian duct structures that terminated in the vagina were present.
  • (10) A 28-year-old male pseudohermaphrodite with gynaecomastia was raised as a female until the age of 17 years, at which time he developed masculine features (deepening of the voice, development of facial hair, male distribution of body hair and male body habitus) and assumed a male gender role.
  • (11) Fourteen obese subjects (mean body weight, 124 kg; percent of ideal body weight [IBW], 178%) and ten control subjects of normal body habitus (mean body weight, 67 kg; 92% IBW) received 300 mg of phenytoin sodium by ten-minute intravenous infusion.
  • (12) These patients presented features similar to others reported with this syndrome as regards age, sex, habitus, menstrual irregularities, treatment, and prognosis.
  • (13) The DWEM, which is based on body habitus and height, was more accurate than other methods (P less than 0.01).
  • (14) Multiple endocrine neoplasia, type II B (MEN II B) includes thyroid carcinoma, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis and marfanoid habitus.
  • (15) The patient's habitus was masculine despite the presence of a small phallus, pseudo-vaginal perineal hypospadias, bifid scrotum, gynecomastia, and diminished virilization.
  • (16) They have a short obese habitus distinct from that of their unaffected siblings and parents.
  • (17) With menstrual irregularity, visual field loss, growth abnormality, or changes in body habitus or appearance, however, further investigation is needed.
  • (18) The coloanal anastomosis should be strongly considered in any patient with a low-lying rectal lesion in whom body habitus precludes the possibility of conventional low anterior resection.
  • (19) In our referral population of ACB, this tendency among women for carotid bruit without stenosis does not seem to be related to lower hematocrit, higher prevalence of heart murmur, constitutionally smaller carotid arteries, or differences in pulse rate or body habitus.
  • (20) Three patients with male habitus, short stature and testicular differentiation are described.

Physique


Definition:

  • (n.) The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Factor analysis by the Jöreskog method was applied to data obtained from measurements of 19 skeletal measurements of human physique, carried out in 1971 on 166 men and 122 women students of the Warsaw Technical University.
  • (2) Measuring items of the physique were the height, the weight, the chest circumference, the sitting height, and the foot area.
  • (3) Maternal factors and perinatal outcome of low birth-weight (less than or equal to 2,500 g) infants of 46 adolescent mothers was studied and compared with 160 adolescents who delivered infants weighing greater than 2,500 g. The significant factors found in the low birth-weight group were anaemia, small maternal physique and preterm delivery.
  • (4) Using the cluster analysis of objects in the space of physique factors the objective classification of peripubertal stage of ontogenesis in girls has been constructed.
  • (5) In the whole, the results indicate the existence of marked genetic determination of physique's growth and development in a stage under study of human ontogenesis.
  • (6) In this context, mesomorphy appears to provide the optimum description of physique variation.
  • (7) An examination of 16 of the 28 children to determine the relationship between their physique, personality, and blood pressure was made.
  • (8) The well established effect of physique remains, but there is no effect of socio-economic status as assessed by the Registrar-General's classification of the father's occupation.
  • (9) The volleyball players were the more linear in physique and the better jumpers.
  • (10) The exact relation between social variables and physique, as part of this triangle, did not yield gracefully to delineation.
  • (11) The subjects' physiques were assessed using the Health-Carter anthropometric somatotype method.
  • (12) After Second World War army service, his physique, graceful carriage and radiant grin took him from lift attendant to Broadway and instant movie stardom in The Killers (1946).
  • (13) Racial variation in physique and body composition are of interest to sport scientists because these characteristics may be related to athletic performance, fitness, strength and injury.
  • (14) Thus, the perception of somatotype and discrepancy between perceived and preferred physique could significantly differentiate the character traits attributed to body build among male and female children.
  • (15) As it was supposed that some improvement of the nutrition and physique since the end of the war should make the heart weight heavier, the value on 1,399 cases of medicolegal autopsy was measured and analyzed.
  • (16) Even his physique answered to 19th century notions of muscular Christianity and a masculine ideal premised on imperial service.
  • (17) A predictive research design was employed as 56 runners ran each of the three distances and were evaluated for VO2max, running mechanics, physique variables, ventilatory threshold, and anaerobic capacity and power.
  • (18) In Venezuela, for example, mannequins’ shape have changed in response to the exaggerated ideals of beauty promoted in a country where a plastic surgery-honed physique is the ideal.
  • (19) If they want to learn how people's health, physiques and attitudes change over time, they have to come here.
  • (20) In Sussex C ounty, England a computerized school health service records the health a nd physique of school children.

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