Morphological and constitutional comparison of age-matched in-vivo and post-mortem populations

Morphologie

Volumn 90, Issue 291, 2006, Pages 189-196

  Clarys, J P ^a   Provyn, S ^a   Marfell Jones, M ^b   Van Roy, P ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Universal College of Learning   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Age matched; Anthropometry; Constitution; Human body composition; In vivo and cadaveric study; Somatotype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 33847622037     PISSN: 12860115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-0115(06)74505-2     Document Type: Article

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