Reference size, as determined by IOM, is based on median height and weight for ages up to age 18 years of age and median height and weight for that height to give a BMI of 21.5 for adult females and 22.5 for adult males.
anecdotal. Use anecdotal in a sentence. LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. adjective. The definition of anecdotal is something that is story-like or something that is based on stories and retellings, not based on provable facts. 1  A funny story about the Roaring Twenties is an example of an anecdotal retelling of the past.
pertaining to, resembling, or containing anecdotes: an anecdotal history of jazz. 2. (of the treatment of subject matter in representational art) pertaining to the relationship of figures or to the arrangement of elements in a scene so as to emphasize the story content of a subject. Compare narrative (def 7).