Skin Fold Test

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Skin Fold Test

A clinical method used to estimate a person’s percentage of body fat, in which a pinch of skin from one of seven particular areas—biceps, triceps, subscapular, suprailiac, abdomen, thigh, and calf—is measured by a caliper

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