Some anthropometric studies of the femur of the male west Malaysian Chinese

✍ Scribed by J. K. Manuel; Mohd. Yusof Bin Mohd

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 336 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330410117

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Measurements and indices were made on 120 male West Malaysian Chinese femora. The findings are compared with appropriate ones from some Eastern and Western series. The Chinese femur is smaller than all the other groups listed except for the Japanese femur. There is a high degree of significance between the maximum and bicondylar lengths of the Chinese femur against those of the Australian aborigine, Maori and White American. The head of the femur is greater in the Maori and White American than the Chinese. The platymeric index is nearly as high as the White American. The difference in the robusticity index of the femur between the Australian aborigine, Maori, White American and the present series is small. The collodiaphyseal angle of the Chinese femur is large being greater than the Australian aborigine, Finn and White American. The angle of torsion of 11.8° is within the range for Westerners with a high incidence of retroversion unlike the Australian aborigine and Maori where no retroversion is seen. Although most of the means of the measurements and indices of the femur show a highly significant difference between the present series and some of the other groups listed there is a wide overlap for measurements of the Chinese femur to be used for racial identification.