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Anthropometricposture:thepersonbeingmeasuredshouldbeinthe
correctposition.Theyshouldremovetheirshoes,straightenthebody,
puttheirfeettogether,andplacetheupperlimbsfreelyalongthetorso.
TheFrankfurtplaneshouldbemaintainedinthealignmentofthehead
(horizontalauricular-orbitalplane)(figure2).
ThehorizontalFrankfurtplaneisthestandardheadorskullposi-
tionusedinphysicalanthropology.Theexaminermustpositionthesub-
ject'sheadsothattheplanepassingthroughthelowestpointonthelower
edgeoftheleftorbitalcavity(anthropometricpointorbitale)andthehighest
pointontheupperedgeoftheexternalauditorymeatus(anthropometric
pointtragion)areparalleltotheground.Onlywhentheheadiscorrectly
alignedinthehorizontalFrankfurtplanewillthehighestpointontopofthe
head,orvertex,becorrectlydetermined.
Figure2.TheFrankfurtplane(FP)(Cameron,2004).
Takingcorrectsomaticmeasurementsrequiresagoodknowledge
ofthetopographyofanthropometricpoints(figure3)onthehuman
body.Anthropometricpointsarepreciselydefinedlocationsonthehuman
skeletonorbody.Thedistancesbetweenthemorbetweenthemandthe
ground(base)arecalledanthropometricmeasurements.
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