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  • adjective Of or pertaining to morphometrics

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  • Using a new technique called morphometric analysis, in which post-mortem brain tissue is divided into tiny parcels and examined, Dr. Martha Herbert, a pediatric neurologist at Harvard Medical School, found an anomaly in the white matter of autistic brains -- it is asymmetrical.

    Autism Hub 2010

  • Using a new technique called morphometric analysis, in which post-mortem brain tissue is divided into tiny parcels and examined, Dr. Martha Herbert, a pediatric neurologist at Harvard Medical School, found an anomaly in the white matter of autistic brains -- it is asymmetrical.

    Autism Hub 2010

  • An early gestational model for pulmonary vascular morphometric analysis.

    CHOP congenital diaphragmatic hernia publications 2010

  • Hu LM, Davies P, Adzick NS, Harrison MR, Reid LM: The effects of intrauterine pneumonectomy in lambs: A morphometric study of the remaining lung at term.

    Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation publications 2010

  • Assessing mandibular shape variation within Gigantopithecus using a geometric morphometric approach

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Adzick NS, Harrison MR, Hu LM, Davies P, Reid LM: Compensatory lung growth after pneumonectomy in fetal lambs: A morphometric study.

    Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation publications 2010

  • Fetal tracheal occlusion for severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia in humans: A morphometric study of lung parenchyma and muscularization of pulmonary arterioles.

    CHOP congenital diaphragmatic hernia publications 2010

  • Museum collections are spotty, and field work, supplemented by morphometric and genetic analysis, is essential for documenting geographic distributions, ecological characteristics and species boundaries.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • The talk was by Abby Drake, then a grad student, and reported on a huge digital morphometric comparison of the skulls of dogs and many representatives from the order Carnivora dogs, cats, bears, sea lions, etc.

    "Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • What is normally referred to as factor analysis - if it is unrotated - is merely principal component analysis and this is the technique most widely used for data reduction of morphometric data Stephen Jay Gould has an elegant description of principal components analysis - which if my memory serves, he refers to incorrectly as “factor analysi” - in his “The Mismeasure of Man”.

    "Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb 2010

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