title: [Relationships between size and shape of the face with somatic type in women].
abstract: We studied correlations between size of the face, different complexes of somatic signs and constitutional types according to the I.B. Galant's scheme basing on the materials of a complex anthropometric examination of 1153 Russian girls 16-21 years of age. We found a mean level of correlations (maximum 0.5 of the coefficient of canonic correlation) between the parameters of various morphological subsystems "face-body" The factorial analysis allowed us to obtain two integrative indices describing a total size and shape of the face. Statistical processing revealed a trend to macroprosopia in the groups from leptosomic to megalosomic constitutional types of girls from the Galant's scheme (p < 0.001). The athletic girls have more pronounced maxillofacial (visceral) part and a reduced size of the frontal face. For application in forensic-medical practice we present equations for individual estimation of the variant of a total size and shape of the face as well as female somatotype.
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Zviagin
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Negasheva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D001837:Body Weights and Measures; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013008:Somatotypes