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human height
Sign in to saveAlso known as human body height, stature, body height
distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect
Research
178,909 papers- Human height: a model common complex trait.Annals of human biology · 2023
- Assortative mating for human height: A meta-analysis.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2017
- Accurate Genomic Prediction of Human Height.Genetics · 2018
- The Relationship between Adult Height and Blood Pressure.Cardiology · 2021
- Human spinal height growth: a description of normal spine growth patterns and adult spine height prediction from a longitudinal cohort.Spine deformity · 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
Height measurement using a stadiometer
Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer, in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system. In the early phase of anthropometric research history, questions about height measuring techniques for measuring nutritional status often concerned genetic differences.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “human height” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.