Correlation analysis of the skull and long bone measurements of the dog

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 323-330

  Alpak, H ^a   Mutus R ^a   Onar, V ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Correlation; Dog; Long bone measurements; Skull typology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRANIOMETRY; DOG; FACE; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LONG BONE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SKULL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 4544290554     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(04)80050-5     Document Type: Article

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