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  2. List of human-based units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of units of measurement based on human body parts or the attributes and abilities of humans (anthropometric units). It does not include derived units further unless they are also themselves human-based. These units are thus considered to be human scale and anthropocentric.

  3. Anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    Anthropometry involves the systematic measurement of the physical properties of the human body, primarily dimensional descriptors of body size and shape. [ citation needed ] Since commonly used methods and approaches in analysing living standards were not helpful enough, the anthropometric history became very useful for historians in answering ...

  4. Kinanthropometry - Wikipedia

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    Kinanthropometry is the interface between human anatomy and movement. It is the application of a series of measurements made on the body and from these we can use the data that we gather directly or perform calculations using the data to produce various indices and body composition predictions and to measure and describe physique.

  5. Anthropometric measurement of the developing fetus - Wikipedia

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    At 8–12 weeks of gestation, liver is a relatively bigger organ which forms 4-5-5.5% of the total body weight and protrudes through the abdominal wall. By 13 to 32 weeks of gestation, it forms 3.4% to 4.0% of the total body weight. [23] The liver weight hence forms a more or less constant proportion of the total body weight of the fetus. [24]

  6. Alphonse Bertillon - Wikipedia

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    Class on the Bertillon system in France in 1911. Class on the Bertillon system in France in 1911. Alphonse Bertillon (French: [bɛʁtijɔ̃]; 22 April 1853 – 13 February 1914) was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements.

  7. Body identification - Wikipedia

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    Alphonse Bertillon developed the Bertillon System in 1879. [8] This system of identifying a body has three dimensions; anthropometric information, descriptive information and the description of particular marks. [7] The combination of these categories creates a picture of the individual, which scientists attempt to match with their records. [7]

  8. Craniometry - Wikipedia

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    A human skull and measurement device from 1902. Craniometry is measurement of the cranium (the main part of the skull), usually the human cranium.It is a subset of cephalometry, measurement of the head, which in humans is a subset of anthropometry, measurement of the human body.

  9. Crash test dummy - Wikipedia

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    Very little attention has been paid to obesity and car crash studies, and it is hard to obtain an obese dummy for the experiment. Instead, human cadavers were used. Body weight is a vital factor when it comes to automobile accidents, and body mass is distributed differently in an obese person versus a non-obese person. [13]