Reid's baseline

"anthropologic" baseline

from infraorbital point (inferiormost pt of bony orbit)
to superior border of external auditory meatus

Note: "axial" CTs use "supraorbital-meatal" line (about 25 degrees to Reid's)

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2002-04-18