Digital stadiometer with close up insert of the device's headpiece.
A stadiometer is a piece of medical equipment used for measuring human height. It is usually constructed out of a ruler and a sliding horizontal headpiece which is adjusted to rest on the top of the head.[1] Stadiometers are used in routine medical examinations and also clinical tests and experiments.
Devices with similar concept, although with higher resolutions, are used in industrial metrology applications, where they are called height gauges.
A stadiometer is a piece of medical equipment used for measuring human height. It is usually constructed out of a ruler and a sliding horizontal headpiece...
of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer, in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, or feet and...
measurement is needed but the individual cannot stand on a traditional stadiometer or against a wall due to abnormalities of the back or legs, such as scoliosis...
first by measuring its components by means of a weighing scale and a stadiometer. The multiplication and division may be carried out directly, by hand...
surgeries) to find the height of people, in which context they are called stadiometers. Height gauges may also be used to measure the height of an object by...
but he was held up at Malta. Whilst on that island he invented the stadiometer, which was the first range-finder used in the British Army, and which...
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