Morphometric Indicators of Head Sizes in Healthy Girls

Abstract

The child grows up, some morphometric indicators of the head grow at the same rate in different age periods of childhood, but the intensity of the growth rate of some indicators is not the same in the age periods. childhood. Thus, in healthy girls from newborn to 12 years, the morphometric indicators of the head in the second period of childhood had a normal growth rate compared to the period of infancy: head circumference 1.4 times (21.9%), longitudinal size of the skull base 1.5 times (14.4%), the transverse size of the head is 1.7 times (20.2%), the transverse size of the forehead is 1.8 times (34.2%), the vertical diameter of the head is 2.1 times (46.4 %), longitudinal diameter of the skull base. It was found that the size increased by 1.6 times (18.0%) and the transverse size of the head by 2.0 times (27.4%).