anthropometry vs mensuration

anthropometry and mensuration both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
anthropometry	Yes	No	No	No
mensuration	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mensuration is a hypernym of anthropometry; that is, mensuration is a word with a broader meaning than anthropometry:

anthropometry: measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities
mensuration: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

Other hypernyms of anthropometry include measure, measurement, measuring.

anthropometry (noun)	mensuration (noun)
measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities	the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule