Somatometric chart: Bone lengths

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Somatometric chart: Bone lengths. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Woodblock illustration from Maijing tuzhu (Canon of the Pulse, illustrated and annotated), author unknown, published in 1901 (27th year of the Guangxu reign period of the Qing dynasty). It shows the locations and names of various bones and articulations of the front of the body, e.g. the 'chimney' (cong), the forehead (elu), the cheekbones (quan), the chin (ke), the jaw (han), the front of the shoulder (yu), the 'broken basin' (quepen), etc.

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PICTURE TITLE: Frontal chart OTHER LETTERING: Cong (chimney, funnel); elu (forehead); quan (cheekbones) ke (chin); han (jaw); yu (front of shoulder); quepen (Broken Basin); zhugu ('Pillar Bone', cervical vertebra/clavicle); henggu (pubic bone); ying (chest) ; nao (forelimb); jiuwei (Turtledove Tail); zhou (elbow); bi (arm); wan (wrist); qi (navel); henggu (pubic bone); spleen; futu (Crouching Rabbit); xi (knee); neifu (Inner Support, tibia); waifu (Outer Support,fibula ); heng (upper part of the tibia); neihuai (internal malleolus); gengu (heelbone); fu (instep); hegu (external malleolus) zhong (heel)

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