anthropometry

anthropometry (an-thr[schwa]-pom-[schwa]-tree). A system of measuring the human body, esp. the size relationships among the different parts. • Before the advent of fingerprinting, minute measurements of the human body — taken and compared to other persons’ measurements — were used to identify criminals and deceased persons. Cf. BERTILLON SYSTEM. — anthropometric, adj.

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