Types of morphofunctional structure of human body and possibilities of their using in ophthalmic research

Abstract

The review analyzes literature data's on main issues related to clinical anthropology, which studies the individual typological variability of phenotype and biopsychological characteristics of patient's personality, taking into account differentiating factors to assess their clinical, pathogenetic, prognostic, and therapeutic significance. It is shown that using special tools and scales, clinical anthropology allows you to determine the quantitative and qualitative phenotypic characteristics of patient, the morphophenotype of constitution, its age, sex, normal and pathological variability in relation to clinical manifestations of the disease. The importance and prospects of using anthropometric research methods in clinical medicine to maximize individualization of approaches to diagnosis and treatment of various pathologies of body are shown. Key words: clinical anthropology, human constitution, somatotype, anthropometry.