osteometry; the measurement of the bones 



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every time they were referred to. Other investigators have added to 

 his original list until there are now nearly a hundred in general use, the 

 most of which refer to precise points upon the skull surface, external 

 or internal. A few, like the euryon and the opisthocranion, are located 

 by geometrical relations, and not by exact topography, and are there- 

 fore variable in position. One, the pteryon, denotes a region, rather 

 than a point. 



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fmt 



Fig. 22. 



-Anatomical landmarks on the skull, norma frontalis. Fur the meaning of the 

 abbreviations, see the list on pp. 42-48.. 



The following list of such anthropological landmarks includes those in 

 common use, with their customary abbreviations.* The arrangement 

 is alphabetical. Points situated laterally, and therefore paired, are 

 marked with a f ; those not so marked are median. 



* The abbreviations given here are those already in more or less general use, and 

 should not be varied. When thoroughly learned they will be found convenient to 

 use in notes and manuscript in place of the full names, and may serve as a convenient 

 sort of shorthand which will save much time. 



