Correlation of Skull Size and Brain Volume With Age, Weight, Height And Body Mass Index of Medical Students

Dr. Anjana Mathur; Dr. Renuka Saini

Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2019

Correlation of Skull Size and Brain Volume With Age, Weight, Height And Body Mass Index of Medical Students

Dr. Anjana Mathur, Dr. Renuka Saini

Abstract :

Physical anthropology involves measurement of various physical parameters referred to as anthropometric parameters. Anthropometric methods can show changes in craniofacial composition that diversify human phenotypes and particular features that differentiate individuals and ethnic groups. These standard data are accurately assessed which can be found useful in plastic surgery, tooth deformities, in legal medicine for identification of an individual or in medical genetics for the diagnosis of dimorphism or craniofacial abnormalities. MATERIAL AND METHOD–The study was carried out on Medical students in Ajmer. Study was carried on 350 students age group of 17–26 years. The head length, head width and auricular height was measured and correlated with age, body weight, body height and body mass index. CONCLUSION– Body measurements are used for calculation of BMI and also head measurements such as length, width and height can be used to calculate the skull volume. Cranial Capacity is one of the indicators to estimate ain volume. An increase of cranial capacity resulted in increase of the body height, body weight and BMI.