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The Value of Anthropometric Indices in the Assessment of Body Build

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Linford Rees
Linford Rees*
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Wales and Monmouthshire
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The assessment of a patient's bodily habitus has now become an important part of clinical investigation in many medical fields.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 95 , Issue 398 , January 1949 , pp. 171 - 179
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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