[Correlative relations of spondylometric features and the height of the body in the Lower Silesian children and adolescent's process of growth (author's transl)].

The author has carried out an analyzis of correlative relations of spondylometric features and the height of the body in 1197 children and adolescents aged 3 up to 16. He has stated individual segments of vertebral column to show slight correlative tendencies or complete lack of them. The length of the vertebral column segments is positively correlated with the length of the vertebral column as well as with the boys and girls body higt - in the process of growth and especially in puberty. A stabilization of proportions of spondylometric features as well as of those and the height of the body takes place in the period of pubescence. That process is more distinct in girls than in boys.