The size and shape of the human pelvis: a comparative study of modern and medieval age populations

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11120/21:43921460 RIV/00216208:11130/21:10427309 RIV/00064173:_____/21:N0000026 RIV/71226401:_____/21:N0100668

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2021.151749" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.aanat.2021.151749</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The size and shape of the human pelvis: a comparative study of modern and medieval age populations

Original language description

Great variability in shape and size of the bony pelvis can be observed in the current population, but there is not enough data on how long the historical period must elapse to gain changes in pelvic shape and size. The aim of the study was to identify morphological changes in bony pelvis in males and females after a developmentally short period of approximately one thousand year. Seventeen defined external dimensions of pelvic bone from 120 adult individuals were measured. The medieval sample of 60 pelvic bones was obtained from the Great Moravian site of Mikulcice-Valy (9th-10th century), while the modern collection of 60 pelvic bones dates from the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. A comparison of male and female pelvic dimensions within a single population yielded expected results: the mean male values were greater. In modern population, male pelvis mean values were greater in 15 of defined parameters, while in medieval population, male dimensions were larger in 16 variables. A comparison of modern and medieval female pelvic bones found 11 variables to be greater in medieval sample, but only two were significant. In modern female samples, there were five variables greater, but only two were significant as well. A comparison of male pelvic bones found 13 variables to be greater in medieval pelvis, but only four were significant as well (all determining the mediolateral dimensions). In modern male sample, there were only four variables greater, but only one was significant (determining the craniocaudal dimension). Unexpectedly, our study did not find the early medieval population to have a smaller pelvis compared to the modern population. While pelvic bones of the former were somewhat lower, but wider, those of the latter population were a bit higher and narrower. The study allows a very careful statement that one millennium is a time period long enough for measurable morphological deviations of the pelvic bones shape and size to occur.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30106 - Anatomy and morphology (plant science to be 1.6)

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Annals of Anatomy

ISSN

0940-9602

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

237

Issue of the periodical within the volume

September

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

151749

UT code for WoS article

000656122800015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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