在形态学领域工作的国际临床医生小组已经开始了用于描述人类形态学的术语的标准化。目标是标准化这些术语,并就其定义达成共识。这样,我们将增加人类表型描述的实用性,并促进患者之间的可靠比较。与形象学和相关领域的其他工作人员进行了额外的讨论,如发育生物学和分子遗传学,将变得更加精确。在这里,我们介绍躯干和四肢的解剖结构,并定义和说明描述这些身体区域主要特征的术语。
An international group of clinicians working in the field of
dysmorphology has initiated the standardization of terms used to describe human morphology. The goals are to standardize these terms and reach consensus regarding their definitions. In this way, we will increase the utility of descriptions of the human phenotype and facilitate reliable comparisons of findings among patients. Additional discussions with other workers in
dysmorphology and related fields, such as developmental biology and molecular genetics, will become more precise. Here we introduce the anatomy of the trunk and limbs and define and illustrate the terms that describe the major characteristics of these body regions.