skinfoldn.
/ˈskɪnfəʊld/, U.S. /ˈskɪnˌfoʊld/ Medicine and Zoology.
An area of skin that hangs loosely; spec. (Medicine) an area of skin and underlying fat raised by pinching, the thickness of which is used as a measure of nutritional status.
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skinfold1921
skinfold thickness1951
1853 Lancet 13 Aug. 138/1 The incisions having been made parallel to the muscular fibres and across the skin folds, the tendency to close has been great.
1868 W. Latham States of River Plate (ed. 2) I. ii. 78 The distinctive characteristics of the ‘Rambouillet’ variety of the Merino are those of considerably larger carcase, longer wool, weightier fleece, fewer skin folds, and better fatting qualities than the German varieties admit of.
1921 Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 4 224 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.
1955 G. Bowen Wool Away! 130 With the modern trend of breeding, tending to eliminate excessive skin folds and wrinkles, there are many nice-cutting reasonably plain-bodied Merinos that shear well.
1984 Listener 13 Dec. 32/3 Skinfolds sagging round her throat are frankly declared by the artist.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 635/1 The smallest rhinoceros, the Sumatran can be recognized by the two deep skin folds encircling its body between the legs and the trunk.
2005 Jrnl. Amer. Dietetic Assoc. 105 599 Only four had excess body fat, as indicated by a sum of triceps and subscapular skinfolds greater than the 85th percentile.
Compounds
attributive, with reference to the use of skin folds in assessing nutritional status, in skinfold calliper, skinfold thickness, etc.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > specific measuring or recording > [noun] > measure of nutritional status
skinfold1921
skinfold thickness1951
the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > specific measuring or recording > [noun] > specific measuring or recording instruments > for measuring fold of skin
skinfold calliper1951
1951 E. L. Reynolds Distrib. Subcutaneous Fat 7 Feer..used Oeder's skinfold technique.
1954 Jrnl. Lab. & Clin. Med. 43 969 The skinfold thickness is read to the nearest half millimeter on the slide scale.
1954 Jrnl. Lab. & Clin. Med. 43 970 A skinfold caliper..which is easily manipulated with one hand.
1977 Lancet 1 Jan. 17/2 Skinfold thickness measurements provide a non-invasive and reproducible means of measuring subcutaneous fat in newborn babies.
2005 Sunday Life (Sydney) 22 May 25/2 BIA scales are less invasive than a skin-fold test—they don't require a stranger to grab lumps of flesh from your body and squeeze it between lengths of steel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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