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general principles of human anatomical partonomy and speculations on the growth of partonomic nomenclature 1
Author(s) -
BROWN CECIL H.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1976.3.3.02a00020
Subject(s) - nomenclature , systematics , human body , computer science , biology , zoology , taxonomy (biology) , artificial intelligence
This paper describes twelve general principles of classification and nomenclature in human anatomical partonomy (body parts systematics). These principles are derived through comparison of “naming‐behavior” data from forty‐one globally distributed languages. In addition, four growth stages in the development of nomenclature for parts of the human extremities are proposed .