"Body Size" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The physical measurements of a body.
| Descriptor ID |
D049628
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.115.100.160 E05.041.124.160 G07.100.100.160 G07.345.249.314
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| Concept/Terms |
Body Size- Body Size
- Body Sizes
- Size, Body
- Sizes, Body
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Body Size".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Body Size" by people in this website by year, and whether "Body Size" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2010 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2015 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2016 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Body Size" by people in Profiles.
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When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity. Sci Adv. 2025 Feb 28; 11(9):eado3843.
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Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment. Commun Biol. 2025 Feb 03; 8(1):162.
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Ecological shifts underlie parallels between ontogenetic and evolutionary allometries in parrotfishes. Proc Biol Sci. 2024 Oct; 291(2033):20241897.
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Three new species of wood-boring bivalves (Mollusca: Xylophagaidae) from the deep Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa. 2024 Aug 12; 5493(3):275-290.
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Small skeletons show size-specific scaling: an exploration of allometry in the mammalian lumbar spine. Proc Biol Sci. 2024 Apr 30; 291(2021):20232868.
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Genome-wide association studies of human and rat BMI converge on synapse, epigenome, and hormone signaling networks. Cell Rep. 2023 08 29; 42(8):112873.
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Sub-1.4 cm3 capsule for detecting labile inflammatory biomarkers in situ. Nature. 2023 Aug; 620(7973):386-392.
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The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size. Curr Biol. 2023 05 08; 33(9):1787-1794.e3.
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Ion regulation at gills precedes gas exchange and the origin of vertebrates. Nature. 2022 10; 610(7933):699-703.
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The impact of paleoclimatic changes on body size evolution in marine fishes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 07 19; 119(29):e2122486119.