Digit Bones (Acropodium) of Gazella (Gazella subgutturosa);
Three-Dimensional Modelling and Morphometry
İsmail Demircioğlu1, Ali Koçyiğit2, Yasin Demiraslan3,Bestami
Yilmaz1, Nazan Gezer Ince4, Sedat Aydoğdu2
and Mustafa Orhun Dayan2*
1Harran University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
Department of Anatomy, 63050, Şanlıurfa, Turkey 2Selcuk University, Faculty
of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Anatomy, 42100, Konya, Turkey 3Burdur Mehmet Akif
Ersoy University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
Department of Anatomy, 15100, Burdur, Turkey; 4İstanbul
Cerrahpaşa University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of
Anatomy, 34093, İstanbul, Turkey *Corresponding author:modayan@selcuk.edu.tr, orhundayan@gmail.com, sedatay85@gmail.com
Abstract
The present study was conducted
to identify morphometric values and to reveal differences between sexes through
three-dimensional modeling of digit bones (ossa phalanges) of gazella by using
computed tomography images. A total of 14 (7 female, 7 male) adult gazella (Gazella
subgutturosa) cadavers were used in the study. The images were extracted by
scanning acropodium bones of gazella at 64-detector Multi Detector Computed
Tomography (MDCT) in cross section thickness of 0.625mm. Using MIMICS 20.1
program, three-dimensional models of these images were prepared and morphometric
measurements were taken. In GLpe and Bd measurements of Phalanx proximalis, a
statistically significant difference was established between females and males
in terms of the left forelimb internal, the right forelimb internal, the right
forelimb external, and the right hindlimb external bones (P<0.05). There was a
statistically significant difference between females and males in terms of
volume of phalanx proximalis and surface area of the right forelimb internal
phalanx proximalis (P<0.001). In GLpe measurements, a statistically significant
difference was determined between females and males in terms of the left
forelimb internal, the right forelimb internal, the right hindlimb internal, the
left forelimb external, the right forelimb external, and the right hindlimb
external phalanx media (P<0.05). A statistically significant difference was
determined between females and males in terms of the data related to volume and
surface areas of the left hindlimb internal the right hindlimb internal, the
left hindlimb external, and the right hindlimb external phalanx distalis
(P<0.05).
To Cite This Article:
Demircioğlu İ, Koçyiğit A, Demiraslan Y,Yilmaz B, Ince NG, Aydoğdu
S and Dayan MO, 2021. Digit bones (acropodium) of
gazella (Gazella subgutturosa); three-dimensional modelling and
morphometry. Pak Vet J, 41(4): 481-486. http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2021.067