See Also: Pirquet's index(medicine)
health status index(medicine)
Pirquet(dictionary)
Pirquet's reaction(medicine)
Pirquet's test(medicine)
Pirquet, Clemens, baron von(encyclopedia)
Pirquet von Cesenatico, Clemens(medicine)
Lourdes(dictionary)
Lourdes(encyclopedia)
Lourdes Hospital(health)

Lourdes Hospital (health) and Pirquet's index (medicine)


Lourdes Hospital (health)


Lourdes Hospital is a hospital in Paducah, Kentucky (USA).









Pirquet's index (medicine)


Pirquet's index


An obsolete method of establishing the presence of malnutrition by dividing the weight (grams/10) by the sitting height (in cm); the cube root of the quotient if < 0.945 was considered as indicating malnutrition.