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Article: Anthropometry
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Anthropometry
The measurement of the human body, its component parts and relative dimensions, such as body weight, height, length of limbic bones, pelvic bones,
skull
, etc., is known as anthropometry. The word anthropometry comes from the Greek
anthropos,
meaning man, plus the word
metron,
meaning measure. Anthropometry is a scientific tool presently used in several fields including
medicine
,
anthropology
, archeology, and
forensic science
to study and compare relative body proportions among human groups and between genders. For instance, by comparing relative body and bone proportions between two groups of children of the same age, under normal and abnormal conditions, ...