Medical Definition of Pirquet's index

1. An obsolete method of establishing the presence of malnutrition by dividing the weight (grams/10) by the sitting height (in cm); the cube root of the quotient if < 0.945 was considered as indicating malnutrition. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pirquet's Index

piroplasmosis
piroplasms
piroque
piroques
piroshki
pirouette
pirouetted
pirouettes
pirouetting
piroxicam
piroxicam
piroxicam olamine
pirozhki
pirozhok
pirprofen
Pirquet's index
Pirquet's reaction
Pirquet's test
pirs
pis
Pisa
pisang wax
pisanosaur
pisanosaurus
Pisaster
pisatin
pisatin demethylase
piscaries
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