Estudio antropométrico en coxales inmigrantes chinos en Cuba

Abstract

The Museo Antropológico Montané of the Facultad de Biología in the University of Havana has a collection of skeletal material of chinese inmigrants to Cuba. The iliac bones of these skeletons has been studied. These bones do not show a significant difference in the vertical and horizontal diameters of the acetabulum that is present in other series. Several of the measurements that defined anatomical regions of the bone where shown to have allometric relations among them.