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The datasheet relevant to Indian anthropometric dimension in standing posture, i.e, heights, depths, breadths and circumferences at specific landmarks are presented here in followed by the key mentioned below.
The source reference :- Chakrabarti, D.,1997: Indian Anthropometric Dimensions for Ergonomic design Practice, NID, Ahmedabad, India
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Key to follow the datasheet.
The below key structure showing landmarks, definitions and data table structure
is used in all the data sheets incorporated in this presentation under different experiment heads.
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The compiled data (with relevant descriptions of anthropometric terminology and illustrative descriptions with the respective measurement landmarks) are presented herewith as INDIAN ANTHROPOMETRIC DIMENSIONS separately for Males, Females and Combined (males and females both considering a single study
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population) forms in the sequence of illustrative measurement land marks, brief of dimensions! measurements and the data table. Dimensional reference numbers as 'R. No.' shown in illustrations and referred both in definitions and in data tables simultaneously. All dimensions (except body weight in Kg) are in millimeters (mm).
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R.No. Parameters
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Definition ( brief)
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| 1. Weight |
Body weight of the person with minimum clothes, and without shoes. |
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Measurements in standing posture
Heights from floor |
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Vertical distances from the floor to the respective points (as mentioned specifically) of the body while standing in stretched erect posture (except relaxed normal standing height), feet together and firmly placed on the ground, weight equally distributed on both feet, looking straight ahead, palm flat against side of the thigh. |
| 2. Normal standing |
Top of the head, standing in normal relaxed erect posture. |
| 3. Stature |
Top to head, standing in erect stretched posture |
| 4. Eye |
Inner corner of the eye. |
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Definition ( brief) |
| 5. Cervical |
Most prominent spinousprocessof the seventh cervical vertebra. |
| 6. Mid shoulder |
Uppermost point on the mid-level of the shoulder |
| 7. Acromion |
Most lateral point of the shoulder on the superior surface of the acromion process of the scapula. |
| 8. Supra sternum |
Upper most point of the sternum. |
| 9. Substernum |
Lower most point of the sternum |
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Definition ( brief)
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| 10. Elbow |
Most proximal point of the olecranon-tip of the ulna. |
| 11. Abdominal extension |
Maximum extended point of the abdomen. |
| 12. Waist |
Upper margin of the lateral iliaccrests (where the belt is worn). |
| 13. Crotch |
Lower most point of the trunk between the legs. (wearing underwear). |
| 14. Buttock extension |
Maximum extended point of the buttocks (the fleshy protuberances forming the lower and back part of the trunk). |
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Definition ( brief) |
| 15. Gluteal furrow |
The furrow, formed in between the buttocks and the upper thigh muscles. |
| 16. Tip of radius |
Tip of the radius (Stylion). |
| 17. Trochanter |
Uppermost point on the lateral projection of the great trochanter bone. |
| 18. Knuckle |
Tip of the knuckle of the middle finger (where the middle finger meets the palm at dorsal surface). |
| 19. Dactylion |
Tip of the middle finger. |
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Parameters |
Definition (brief) |
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Mid-patella |
Mid mid point of the patella (the Knee bone) |
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Lateral malleolus |
Lower most point of the fibula |
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Medial malleolus |
Lower most point of the tibia. |
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Breadths, Depths and Lengths |
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Horizontal distances between two respective points |
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Span |
Maximum horizontal distance between the middle fingertips when both the arms are stretched out fully sideways perpendicular to the trunk. |
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Span akimbo |
Maximum horizontal distance between the tips of the elbows when both the upper arms are stretched out sideways perpendicular to the trunk and the elbows are fully flexed so that the tips of the middle finger of both the hands touch each other.
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| R.No. Parameters |
Definition ( brief)
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| 25. Maximum body breadth, relaxed |
Maximum horizontal distance across the body including arms hanging relaxed at sides.
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| 26. Chest depth |
Horizontal distance from the back to the front of the chest at the nipple level.
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| 27. Maximum body depth, relaxed |
Maximum horizontal distance between the vertical planes passing through the most anterior point (on the chest or abdomen) and the most posterior point (on the shoulder or buttocks) of the trunk.
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| 28. Acromion to olecranon tip length |
Length between the most lateral point on the superior surface of the acromion process of the scapula and the most proximal point of the olecranon, i.e. the tip of the ulna at elbow.
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| 29. Olecranon to stylion length |
Length between the proximal point of the olecranon, i.e., the tip of
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Definition (brief) |
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Circumferences
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Horizontal(otherwisementioned specifically)circumferences at different areas |
| 30. Chest (mid tidal) on bust |
On the chest at nipple level. |
| 31. Chest (mid tidal) below bust |
On the chest below the nippl elevel |
| 32. Abdominal extension Waist |
On the abdomen, at its maximum extended point |
| 33. Waist |
On the waist, at the level of the upper margin of the lateral iliac crests, (wher ethe belt is worn). |
| 34. Hip at gluteal extension |
At the level of the maximum protrusion (glutealextension) of the buttocks. |
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Definition ( brief) |
| 40. Relaxed elbow |
On the elbow encompassing the elbow pit and the olecranon tip of the arm in hanging relaxed position. |
| 41. Relaxed forearm |
Maximum horizontal circumference at the lower arm (hanging relaxed) wherever found. |
| 42. Wrist |
At the styloid processes of radius and ulna (where the wrist band is worn). |
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Definition ( brief) |
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Arm reach lengths and heights |
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Arm reach lengths and heights in different standing postural variations and directions are explained with relevant figures in respective data sheets. |
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Standing in erect posture, vertical comfortable arm reach height from floor. |
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Standing in erect posture, body stretched and standing on toe, vertical comfortable arm reach height from floor. |
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Standing in erect posture, vertical comfortable grasp (centre of a grasp while holding a rod of
30 mm diameter) reach height from floor. |
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