Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
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- noun A body build.
- noun A type of
physique , especially one the types defined by Sheldon:ectomorphic ,endomorphic ,mesomorphic
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- noun a category of physique
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Examples
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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.
Who Wears The Trousers ? Newmania 2008
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Would the Armed Services make their records available for scansion by somatotype and pigmentation?
Bad Medicine Robert Sheckley 1966
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A large somatotype at age 7 was found to be associated with decreased postmenopausal breast cancer risk.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Jingmei Li 2010
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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.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Jingmei Li 2010
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Our classification of childhood body size was derived from a nine-level somatotype.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Jingmei Li 2010
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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.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Jingmei Li 2010
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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.)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Teac Japan announced their latest SACD X-05 somatotype Player will ship from earlier December 5, 04 ...
CyberTheater 2009
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