habitus

How To Use habitus In A Sentence

• Just as we all vary in height and body habitus, everyone has their own personal maximum heart rate genetically ‘hardwired’.
• He had a thin body habitus and appeared comfortable at rest.
• The officials, from the same habitus as the runners, control the sport and impose penalties when they detect infringements of the rules.
• Together these gestures constellate the habitus within which the various theories, doctrines, and practices of either field could materialize themselves, but against which the period writes with some resistant force. Introduction
• Research is needed to determine the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of alternative means for detecting conditions not amenable to physical examination because of a patient's body habitus.
• the consumptive habitus
• I have thought it worthwhile to vary the interpretation of this word, because though "habitus" may be equivalent to all the senses of [Greek: exis], "habit" is not, at least according to our colloquial usage we commonly denote by "habit" a state formed by habituation. Ethics
• Council of Trent has refrained from applying the term habitus to sanctifying grace. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• Not all x-rays were readable because his habitus (ie, body build) sometimes interfered with the area that needed examination.
• The accuracy of ultrasonography greatly depends on operator experience and maternal body habitus.