Definition of Terms Associated with Anthropometric Assessment of Nutritional Status

1.    Anthropometry: This is the measurement of individual based on size, weight and height.

2.    Assessment: is the process of gathering, analysing, interpreting, and using information about progress and achievement in order to improve teaching and

learning.

3.    Nutrition: Nutrition is the selection of foods and preparation of foods, and their ingestion to be assimilated by the body.

4.    Malnutrition: This is the condition that results from eating a diet in which certain nutrients are lacking, in excess (too high in intake), or in the wrong proportions.

5.    Food: This is defined as any substance that people or animal eat, drink or that plant absorbed to maintain life or growth.

6.    Complication: A thing that make a situation more complex or difficult.

7.    Health: This is the complete state of physical, social, mental and emotional well-being of a person not only the absence of disease or infirmity.

8.    Measurement: This is the assignment of numbers to objects, things or events.

9.    Clinician: This is a health care practitioner that works as a primary care giver of a patient in a hospital setting, pre-hospital setting, clinic setting or in home health care.

10. Diet: Amount of food that a person is allowed to eat and drink.

11. Disorder: A disturbance of the normal process of the body or mind.

12. Preadolescence: This is a stage of human development following early childhood and prior to adolescence.