The Study of Cephalic Index of North Indian Students in Tmmc &; Rc

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Medicine - Anatomy, Physiology, Cytology, Teerthanker Mahaveer University (Teerthanker Mahaveer Medical College & Research Centre ,Moradabad ,U.P., India), course: M.Sc. Medical Anatomy, language: English, abstract: Cephalometry is the scientific measurement of the dimensions of head. The name Cephalometry is grain to the morphological study of all structures present in the human head. Cephalometry is a branch of Anthropometry. Anthropometry may perhaps be most simply and comprehensively defined as the conventional art or system of measuring the human body and its parts. The systems of measuring the skull and the skeleton are known separately as craniometry and osteometry, but these terms are frequently merged with that of anthropometry ;thus we speak only of anthropometric instruments, anthropometric methods in anthropometric laboratories.