A contribution to the knowledge of the relationships between the dimensions of skeleton and the muscular mass of women

Boris, Wolf, Ankica, V, Hošek, Konstantin, Momirović

Glasnik Antropološkog društva Jugoslavije

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0351-1480

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1995-2021/11/03/11:45:15

The relationships between some measures for evaluation of longitudinal and transversal dimensionality of the body and measures for evaluation of the female muscular mass, have been analyzed an a sample of 308 women, aged 19-27, under the model of bipartial biorthogonal canonical correlational analysis. A part the variance, drawn from both sets of measures, which depended on the relationships between these measures and measures of the fat tissue, has been partialized. Skeleton dimension have been estimated by body size, horizontal circumference of the head, vertical circumference of the head, transversal diameter of the head, wrist diameter, knee diameter biacromial and bicrystal range, arm length, leg length, foot length and food width. The muscular mass was evaluated on the basis of the following circular measures of trunk and limbs: supramammillary chest circumference submammillary chest circumference, hips circumference, fore-arm circumference, arm circumference, calf circumference and thigh circumference. Evaluation of the matter was made on the basis of the following measures: face skin depth, chin skin depth, scapula skin depth armpit skin depth, chest skin depth, abdomen skin depth, back skin depth hip skin depth, patella skin depth, popliteal skin depth and calfskin depth. The analysis has isolated four pairs of canonical factors with significant mutual canonical correlations. The correlation between the first pair of canonical variables was easily ascribed to the correlation between the general factory of the bone mass and the general factor of the bone mass and the general factor of the muscular mass. The second correlation was ascribed to the influence that the leptomorphous body-type exerts on the reduction of the muscular mass, with the exception of the gluteal region. The third relationship was ascribed to the influence that the longitudinal dimensionality of body exerts on the reduction of the muscular mass especially on limbs. The fourth canonical correlation was a consequence of the influence that the body type characterized by the brachiochepal head-form and short, thin limbs, exerts on the reduction of the muscular mass on trunk and growth of the muscular mass on limbs.