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n. - Slender, weak, and lightweight.

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  • His neighbor to the south has an equal measure of mesomorphy and ectomorphy, making him thin and muscular.
  • According to Sheldon's system a 7-1-1 (seven-one-one) is the most extreme endomorph with minimal mesomorphy and ectomorphy.
  • No one is simply an endomorph without having at the same time some mesomorphy and ectomorphy, but we have these components in varying degrees.
  • These basic elements he named endomorphy, mesomorphy and ectomorphy, for they seemed to derive from the three layers of the human embryo, the endoderm, the mesoderm and...
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