Finding
weight gain
weight gain [ weyt geyn ]
Subclass of:
Body Weight Changes
Definitions related to weight gain:
  • An increase in total body weight.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Increase in BODY WEIGHT over existing weight.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Increase in body weight over existing weight; unintentional as well as intentional gain.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (body weight gain) A change in overall body weight, relative to the beginning of the collection period.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • (increased body weight) Abnormally increased body weight.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • A finding characterized by an unexpected or abnormal increase in overall body weight; for pediatrics, greater than the baseline growth curve.
    Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events
    U.S. National Institutes of Health, 2021
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