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Name | Measurements of Median Points of Skull in Identification of Sex and It’s Application |
Description | Research article:- * C.Venkatramaniah¹, A.Mary Antony Praba². ¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Pondy, India. ² Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Tagore Medical College, Chennai, India
Abstract:- The skull is the ossified, bony structure that encloses and protects the brain, internal extensions of sensory organs, and some facial structures. When a complete skeleton is available, the level of reliability in establishing sex, age, and race through anthropometrics is almost 100%. Pelvic bones alone offer a 95% reliability , while pelvic bones plus the skull - 98%. By adulthood all the features in the skull are prominent and so identification of sex of a person is easy with in 30 years age. The smoother the skull, the older the person. So it is bit difficult to identify the sex above 30. So it is difficult to identify the sex of the person by using these three prominences alone. But there are certain points on the median plane of the skull which are helpful in finding the sex of a person. Though a number of median points are available with skull, we have selected only 9 prominent points were taken for the study they are the- Vertex, Glabella, Nasion, Akanthion, Bregma, Lambda, Inion, Basion And Opisthion(3,14). All the points are measured from the vertex. The result shows a considerable variation between the mean values of male and female skulls. The female skull shows a relatively low value in average than the male skulls. So this can be utilized in differenciating the sex of a person.
Keywords:- Vertex, glabella, nasion, akanthion, bregma, lambda, inion, basion, opisthion. |
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