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1. What is the cun measurement between the two mastoid processes?
2. What is the cun measurement between the two nipples?
3. What is the distance from the anterior hairline to the posterior hairline?
4. What is the distance from the sternocostal angle to the centre of the umbilicus?
5. What is the distance between the medial border of the scapula and the posterior midline?
6. What is the distance between the end of the axillary fold and the transverse cubital crease?
7. What is the distance between the transverse cubital crease and the wrist crease?
8. What is the distance between the superior border of the symphysis pubis and the medial epicondyle of the femur?
9. What is the distance between the inferior border of the medial condyle of the tibia and the tip of the medial malleolus?
10. What is the distance between the prominence of the trochanter and the middle of the patella?
11. What is the distance between the centre of the patella and the tip of the lateral malleolus?
12. What is the distance between the tip of the lateral malleolus and the heel?
13. What is the distance between the centre of the umbilicus and the superior border of the symphysis pubis?
14. What is the distance between the end of the axillary fold on the lateral side of the chest and the tip of the eleventh rib?
15. What is the distance between Yintang (Extra) and Baihui (DU20)?
16. What is the distance between Guanyuan (Ren 4) and Jiuwei (Ren 15)?
17. Which point is level with the tip of Adam’s apple, on the anterior border of m. sternocleidomastoideus?
18. When the index finger and thumbs of both hands are crossed with the index finger of one hand placed on the styloid process of the radius of the other, the depression right under the tip of the index finger is which point?
19. Which point is located 2 cun above the laterosuperior border of the patella?
20. Which point is level with Chengman (ST20)?
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