[Morphometric characteristics and typology of the human orbit].

The technique was developed and some new quantitative parameters were proposed to characterize the form and the size of the orbital chamber and an external contour of an orbit. The analysis performed allowed to reveal the main vectors in the intra- and intergroup variability in the typology of a human orbit structure. The basic vectors of the variability comprised the absolute, especially deep, sizes of an orbit, and also a configuration of an external contour of an orbit. Intergroup variability of the orbital parameters has also allowed to distinguish the types of the orbital structure, characteristic for mongoloid and caucasoid anthropological variants of the modern mankind. The average value of the distance from nasion point to the line between supraorbitale points was equal to 10.0 and 8.0 mm in mongoloids and caucasoids, respectively. The orbits in mongoloid people were shown to be larger in all the absolute dimensions, including height, width and depth.