Foot dimensions and foot shape: Differences due to growth, generation and ethnic origin

Anthropological Science

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL., 1998, Pages 161-188

  Kouchi, Makiko ^a  

^a NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly persons; Foot outline; Medial axis; Secular change

Indexed keywords

EID: 22644450598     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.106.supplement_161     Document Type: Article

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