(1) In order to appreciate the normality of the head he described four diameters of the skull and has been considered by Topinard as the father of craniometry.
(2) There developed Medical Antropology and Dental Anthropology, employing osteometry and craniometry on the skeleton, somatometry and cephalometry on the living body.
(3) Due to the fact that in present-day traditional craniometry one does not take into account the relative position of all the measured diameters or cords, one happens to construct, through a set of measures made on a given skull, an abstract multiform representation which has more than one million possible variants.
(4) The race and sex of the human skull can be determined by craniometry.
(5) Roentgenological craniometry is closely related to craniometry of anatomists and anthropologists, but in a few essential points it does differ from it--rather fundamentally, in fact.
(6) X-ray craniometry has gained in importance for scientific and clinical examination.
(7) In the present instance, this method overcomes the conceptual and methodologic constraints of both craniometry and roentgenographic cephalometry by providing two-dimensional, reference-frame-invariant, independent comparisons of the size, shape, and location of the point continua enclosed within the boundaries for each local, finite element into which the mandible was discretized.
(8) In this case osseous hypoplasia of the posterior fossa was excluded by craniometry, so the upward displacement must have been due to hypoplasia of the tentorium cerebelli and its low attachment to the occiput, bringingg about a narrowing of the infratentorial space.
(9) This study examines the craniometry of Black and White Colobus monkeys using 1072 specimens representing all the recognized subspecies (after Rahm, '70) of the genus.
(10) In contrast to the methods of conventional craniometry (CM) and roentgenographic cephalometry (RCM) the FEM permits fine scale, reference frame invariant descriptions and analysis of growth behavior.
(11) The transformations thus achieved were evaluated by radiography, histology and craniometry.
(12) This paper sets out to describe a number of traditional and novel approaches to craniometry.
(13) The investigation performed by means of the craniometry method on 150 mature person skulls, that are rather evenly distributed according to their sex, age and form, and simultaneous investigation of 70 heads of corpses of persons of both sex, gave the data denying the possibility of mechanical damage of the chorda tympani, when the mandibular head is shifted backward or medially.
Measurement
Definition:
(n.) The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
(n.) The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(3) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(4) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(5) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
(7) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(8) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(9) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(10) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(11) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(12) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(13) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(14) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(15) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(16) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(17) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(18) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(19) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(20) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.