A growth chart is a record of height (or weight) measured again and again over time — the door-frame marks of Chapter 4, made regular and dated. Doctors keep one for every child.
Examples
Example 15.5 (Reading the chart)
On the chart, the line climbs about in the very first year — and only about a year through childhood. The two steep parts are the two bursts of Remark 15.3; the flat end says the adult has stopped growing taller.