Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: January | Volume: 7 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 101-113
A Study for Estimation of Human Height from the Length of Ulna
Mithu Paul1, Oyndrila Sengupta1, Subhajit Halder2, Utpal Kumar Panda3
1Demonstrator, Department of Anatomy Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata. 2Demonstrator, Department of Anatomy Murshidabad Medical College, Berhampore, Murshidabad.
3Senior Resident, Department of Pathology, Bankura Sammilani Medical College, Bankura.
Corresponding Author: Oyndrila Sengupta
ABSTRACT
Background: Stature estimation from skeletal remains bears immense importance in Forensic Sciences. Assessment of height from different parts of body by Anthropometric study of skeleton is of interest to Anatomist, Anthropologist and Forensic Experts.
Aims and objectives: The present study was undertaken to formulate a regression equation.
Methods: For estimation of stature of a population of 500 subjects collected from the General OPD of N.R.S. Medical College in correlation of a long bone Ulna in adult age group. The measurements were taken by standard anthropometric instruments in centimeters, according to the technique described by Vallois. Height of the subject was measured in standing position on a standard stadiometer. All data put in SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) VERSION 20 SOFTWARE and analyzed where 'n' is the sample size for males and females.
Result: The observation were analyzed separately for both right and left ulna in each sex on all subjects and results are tabulated. The mean ages of the study subjects (male 33.98 ± 8.904) and female33.98 ±8.269) were not significantly different between genders. Gender differences in mean height and length of Ulna were found to be highly significant (P< 0.05). Mean Ulna lengths of the male were significantly larger than that of the females of all age groups.
Keywords: Length of Ulna, stature of human
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