The location of nasion in the living

✍ Scribed by C. J. Connolly

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1926
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 246 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330090323

✦ Synopsis

In taking anthropometric measurements on the face and nose, a difficulty frequently met with is to exactly locate the nasion. The best way when possible is, of course, actually to feel the naso-frontal suture. But this is difficult in practice and often impossible. Even the directions for the location of the nasion are sometimes misleading, as when it is stated that the nasion is the most depressed point at the root of the nose. Recourse must therefore be had to knowledge based upon study of the skulls and more or less close approximations. Granted this is the best we can do, a desideratum still remaining is to determine the variability of the point and to ascertain what racial and sex differences exist in its location relative to the neighboring structures.