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Design and Accuracy of Calipers for Measuring Subcutaneous Tissue Thickness*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

D. A. W. Edwards†
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Research, University of College Hospital Medical School
W. H. Hammond
Affiliation:
Ministry of Health, 23 Savile Row, London, W. 1
M. J. R. Healy
Affiliation:
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts
J. M. Tanner
Affiliation:
Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London S.E. 1
R. H. Whitehouse
Affiliation:
Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London S.E. 1
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1955

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