Table 1.
Anthropometric measures of the hand in the Colombian population, males (n = 1,315) and females (n = 785) between 20 and 59 years old (Chaurand et al., 2007).
| Gender | Female | Male | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentile | 5 | 50 | 95 | 5 | 50 | 95 |
| 1. Wrist width (cm) | 4.48 | 4.93 | 5.43 | 5.00 | 5.58 | 6.05 |
| 2. Hand width (cm) | 6.85 | 7.45 | 8.03 | 7.78 | 8.45 | 9.08 |
| 3. Hand length (cm) | 15.43 | 16.60 | 17.95 | 16.83 | 18.30 | 19.90 |
| 4. Palm length (cm) | 8.48 | 9.23 | 10.08 | 9.28 | 10.28 | 11.23 |
| 5. Wrist perimeter (cm) | 13.53 | 14.68 | 16.10 | 15.20 | 16.53 | 17.98 |
| 6. Metacarpal perimeter (cm) | 16.58 | 17.95 | 19.40 | 18.85 | 20.45 | 22.15 |