1A person's general constitution, especially physical build.
‘the patient's vital signs and body habitus should be noted’
‘He doesn't have the body habitus for severe sleep apnea.’
‘Research is needed to determine the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of alternative means for detecting conditions not amenable to physical examination because of a patient's body habitus.’
‘This border varies in position according to body habitus as well as disease.’
‘Not all x-rays were readable because his habitus (ie, body build) sometimes interfered with the area that needed examination.’
‘Physiologic changes in the elder habitus often affect the dosing and choice of medication.’
‘The accuracy of ultrasonography greatly depends on operator experience and maternal body habitus.’
‘On physical examination, the patient's vital signs (particularly temperature and blood pressure) and body habitus should be noted.’
‘Their large body habitus and associated serious comorbidities make patients who are morbidly obese high-risk surgical candidates who require careful planning and implementation of patient care.’
‘If the procedure is planned in advance, an enterostomal therapy nurse will mark a location on the patient's abdomen that matches the patient's contours, waist and belt line, and body habitus.’
‘Their large body habitus and comorbidities render them high-risk surgical candidates requiring thorough planning and implementation of care.’
‘Some people - especially women - may switch to vegetarianism as a means of restricting energy intake to attain the lean body habitus favored in some sports.’
‘He had a thin body habitus and appeared comfortable at rest.’
‘We investigated these and other measures of body habitus as potential confounders.’
‘On the contrary, experiences of anorexia drew directly from people's habitus, from their everyday relationships and experiences with people, places, food, bodies, sexuality and gender relations.’
‘However, until the millipede specimens described herein were discovered there was no concrete morphological evidence to support the terrestrial habitus of the oldest millipedes.’
‘Just as we all vary in height and body habitus, everyone has their own personal maximum heart rate genetically ‘hardwired’.’
‘Therefore, this class-specific, gendered habitus would operate across the public/private divide.’
‘During pregnancy, a woman undergoes many physiological and hormonal changes that can alter her metabolism and body habitus.’
‘The officials, from the same habitus as the runners, control the sport and impose penalties when they detect infringements of the rules.’
‘Hybrids are most easily recognizable by their intermediate habitus.’
2The way a person of a particular background perceives and reacts to the world.
‘depending on their position in a given social field they develop a certain habitus typical of their position’
Origin
Late 19th century from Latin.
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