Anthropometry: The science of measuring the human body as to height, weight, and size of component parts and to study and compare the relative proportions under normal and abnormal conditions

(Source: Webster’s New 20th Century Dictionary (1970

Anthropometry: The part of anthropology (study of humans) having to do with measurements of the human body to determine differences in races, individuals, et

Source: Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier