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named measurement on the skull, as in the latter the posterior terminus 

 of this arc is on the opisthion. 



38. Transverse arc; from tragion to tragion, over the vertex. 



B. ON THE TRUNK AND LIMBS. 



1. Height from floor {Projections) 



1. Ht. vertex (total stature) 



2. Ht. tragus 



3. Ht. gnathion (eyes looking straight ahead). 



4. Ht. suprasternal 



5. Ht. thelion (not taken in women with hanging breasts) 



6. Ht. mesosternale 



7. Ht. omphalion 



8. Ht. symphysion 



9. Ht. iliocristale 



10. Ht. iliospinale 



11. Ht. vertebrale 



12. Ht. lumbale 



13. Ht. acromion 



14. Ht. radiale 



15. Ht. stylion 



16. Ht. dactylion 



17. Ht. trochanterion 



18. Ht. tibiale 



19. Ht. spherion 



2. Sitting height; from plane of seat. 



[For these the subject should be seated upon a low, level table, where 

 the foot of the anthropometer should also rest. If the feet be placed 

 upon a rather high chair, thus lifting the dorsal muscles of the thigh from 

 contact with the table, they cannot be used by the subject in lifting the 

 body, while it rests directly upon the sciatic tubers (ischiadic tuberos- 

 ities), here quite subcutaneous] 



20. S. Ht. vertex (This gives the trunk length between vertex and 

 the lowest point of the pelvic girdle). 



21. S. Ht. tragus (This gives the trunk length from the first vertebra, 

 as the tragus level is practically the same as that of the occipital condyles, 

 or the plane tangent with the upper projections of the atlas. (The sub- 

 ject must look straight ahead, as in Measurement 3, and some others). 



22. S. Ht. suprasternale (This gives the trunk height from the 

 anterior end of the sternum, a point often used). 



23. S. Ht. vertebrale. 



24. S. Ht. iliocristale (This gives the height of the pelvic girdle). 



