Calipers, skin

Calipers, skin
Calipers are instruments used to measure the diameter of an object. (The word "calipers" is a corruption of "caliber"). The skin fold thickness in several parts of the body can be measured with calipers, a metal or plastic tool similar to a compass. This is done in medicine and physical anthropology.

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