Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The structure or build of a person, especially to the extent to which it exhibits the characteristics of an ectomorph, an endomorph, or a mesomorph.
Wiktionary
- n. A body build.
- n. A type of physique, especially one the types defined by Sheldon: ectomorphic, endomorphic, mesomorphic
WordNet 3.0
- n. a category of physique
Examples
“A Leptosomatic somatotype is characterised by loooooooooooooong legs, arms and body (though not head), leptodactylously loooooooong fingers, feet and toes, slim wrists and, typically, no chest, or a sort of caved in chest.”
“Would the Armed Services make their records available for scansion by somatotype and pigmentation?”
“A large somatotype at age 7 was found to be associated with decreased postmenopausal breast cancer risk.”
“Association between somatotype at age 7 and tumour characteristics were evaluated in a case-only analysis where P-values for heterogeneity were obtained by performing one degree of freedom trend tests.”
“Our classification of childhood body size was derived from a nine-level somatotype.”
“Although strongly associated with other risk factors such as age of menarche, adult body mass index and mammographic density, somatotype at age 7 remained a significant protective factor (odds ratio (OR) comparing large to lean somatotype at age 7 = 0.73, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0. 58-0.91, P trend = 0.004) after adjustment.”
“Lots of possible answers, from mobility / migration to alternate genetic "switching" that changes their somatotype from generation to generation (not evolution, just using different parts of the genome under environmental pressure.)”
“Teac Japan announced their latest SACD X-05 somatotype Player will ship from earlier December 5, 04 ...”
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of or relating to the human body
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