Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

BMI en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of body mass index.
    • The Federal Obesity Clinical Guidelines define underweight as a BMI of 18 or less, overweight as a BMI of 25 to 29.9 and obesity as a BMI of 30 and above.
    • Wrong, says a new study, which has found that among adults 18 to 90 across the BMI continuum, having an apple shape increased the risk of death -- particularly death from cardiovascular disease. Even at BMIs above 30, where obesity begins, men and women whose waist-to-hip ratio identified them as more pear-shaped were less likely to die -- of any cause and of cardiovascular causes -- than those with similar BMIs who were apple-shaped. 2015 November 9, Melissa Healy, “Pear-shaped vs. apple trumps body mass index as a measure of risk”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2015:
    • In the bivariate analysis carried out by subgroups, we did not find statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) between bionaïve or bioexperienced patients, patients with BMI < 30 or BMI > 30 in relation to the efficacy variables (PASI and BSA) and analyzed PROs (VAS pruritus and DLQI). 2022 August 30, Ricardo Ruiz-Villaverde, Lourdes Rodriguez Fernandez-Freire, Pilar Font-Ugalde, Manuel Galan-Gutierrez, “Tildrakizumab: Efficacy, Safety and Survival in Mid-Term (52 Weeks) in Three Tertiary Hospitals in Andalucia (Spain)”, in Journal of Clinical Medicine, volume 11, number 17, →DOI, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2025, page 5:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of brain–machine interface.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
BMIs Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

BCI

Translations (13)

el ΔΣΒ (body mass index) · pt IMC (body mass index) · fr IMC (body mass index) · de KMZ (body mass index) · ru ИМТ (body mass index) · de KMI (body mass index) · af LMI (body mass index) · es IMC (body mass index) · ca IMC (body mass index) · nl QI (body mass index) · sv BMI (body mass index) · nl BMI (body mass index) · pl BMI (body mass index)