enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Body proportions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_proportions

    Leg-to-body ratio is seen as indicator of physical attractiveness but there appears to be no accepted definition of leg-length: the 'perineum to floor' measure [e] is the most used but arguably the distance from ankle bone to outer hip bone is more rigorous. [12]

  3. Human head - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_head

    Anatomy of the human head. The human head consists of a fleshy outer portion, which surrounds the bony skull. The brain is enclosed within the skull. There are 22 bones in the human head. The head rests on the neck, and the seven cervical vertebrae support it. The human head typically weighs between 2.3 and 5 kilograms (5.1 and 11.0 lb) Over 98 ...

  4. Metatarsal bones - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatarsal_bones

    The metatarsal bones or metatarsus (pl.: metatarsi) are a group of five long bones in the midfoot, located between the tarsal bones (which form the heel and the ankle) and the phalanges (toes). Lacking individual names, the metatarsal bones are numbered from the medial side (the side of the great toe): the first, second, third, fourth, and ...

  5. Craniometry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniometry

    A human skull and measurement device from 1902. Craniometryis 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. It is distinct from phrenology, the pseudoscience that tried to ...

  6. First metatarsal bone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_metatarsal_bone

    The first metatarsal bone is the bone in the foot just behind the big toe. The first metatarsal bone is the shortest of the metatarsal bones and by far the thickest and strongest of them. [ 1 ] Like the four other metatarsals, it can be divided into three parts: base, body and head. The base is the part closest to the ankle and the head is ...

  7. Human leg - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_leg

    In human anatomy, the lower leg is the part of the lower limb that lies between the kneeand the ankle.[1] Anatomists restrict the term legto this use, rather than to the entire lower limb.[6] The thighis between the hipand kneeand makes up the rest of the lower limb.[1] The term lower limbor lower extremityis commonly used to describe all of ...

  8. Anthropometry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropometry

    Such resolutions yield a contact area of approximately 500 sensors (for a typical adult human foot with surface area of approximately 100 cm 2). [31] For a stance phase duration of approximately 0.6 seconds during normal walking, [ 32 ] approximately 150,000 pressure values, depending on the hardware specifications, are recorded for each step.

  9. Allometry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allometry

    Allometry (Ancient Greek ἄλλος állos "other", μέτρον métron "measurement") is the study of the relationship of body size to shape, [1] anatomy, physiology and behaviour, [2] first outlined by Otto Snell in 1892, [3] by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 in On Growth and Form [4] and by Julian Huxley in 1932. [5]