한국인척주 및 척수에 관한 해부학적 연구 제2편 성인에 관한 연구

Abstract

The author has biometircally measured 24 items on 47 (male-29, female-HI) Korean adults, their assumed average age was forty years old in the male and thirty four years old in the female, and has reached the following conclusions about the length and positional relationship between the vertearal column and the spinal cord. 1. The length of the vertebral column of the Korean male is longer than that of the femal, the data shows the same result as for European and Japanese. The length of the total vertebral column and each portion of that in the male appeared in order as follows Korean>Japanese>European.