Reliability of criteria used for sexing human sacrum

This study was under taken to know the sexual differences in an adult (north Karnataka) human sacrum & thus identify a male from a female sacrum using various indices. 254 dried completely ossified grossly normal human adult sacrum of both sex (190 male & 64 female) where taken from anatomy department of Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College Gulbarga. In the present study the sacral index, curvature index, carporobasal index, alar index showed statistical difference between male & female except the index of body of S1. Identification point & demarking point helped in sexing the sacrum with certainty. The most useful index for sex determination of sacrum in this study was sacral index.