Reliability of Length and width of Hip Bone and Transverse Diameter of Acetabulum in Gender Determination Shreekrishna HK1,*, Kumar Pavan2, Yatiraj Singi3 1Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Shreedevi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Hospital, Tumkur 2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Shreedevi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Hospital, Tumkur 3Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, MMIMSR, Mullana, Dist Ambala *Corresponding author; Dr. Shreekrishna H K, Associate professor, Forensic medicine, Shreedevi institute of medical sciences & research Hospital, Tumkur-572106, Ph.no-7975952037, Email - krishnashree61@yahoo.com
Online published on 7 May, 2019. Abstract Identification of the sex from the skeletal remains is the prime work of forensic experts. The present study is carried out to determine the sex of hip bone from the length of hip bone, width of hip bone, transverse diameter of acetabulum. One hundred adult hip bones of known sex (50 male and 50 female) available in the department of Forensic medicine and Department of Anatomy, M R Medical College and KBN Institute of medical sciences, Gulbarga are used for present study. Among all the three variables statistically analyzed, the most reliable parameter is length of hip bone, 28% of male and 8% of female hip bones that is, overall 18% of hip bones can be sorted out by this parameter alone. This parameter is found to be statistically significant. Top Keywords Diameter of acetabulum, Identification point, Length of hip bone. Top |