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Descriptor English:   Mid-Upper Arm Circumference 
Descriptor Spanish:   Circunferencia del Brazo 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Circunferência Braquial 
Tree Number:   SP6.011.042.048.074
Definition English:   Measure around the midpoint of the right arm, used for evaluation of areas of fat and arm muscle in children, adolescents, adults, pregnant women and elderly, in order to make a nutritional screening or when equipment to measuring weigh and height are not available. 
See Related English:   Body Height
Nutritional Status
 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
HI history IS instrumentation
MT methods  
Record Number:   16503 

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