Metrical study on skulls in Karnataka state

Study was conducted on the adult human dry skull in dept of Anatomy and Forensic Medicine at SSIMS & RC, Davangere. Karnataka, measurement of skull were taken using spreading caliper. Study was conducted on 49 dry human skulls (35 males and 14 females) Cranial breadth, Cranial length and Cranial index was calculated and pyriform aperture height was measured and correlated with cranial breadth, cranial length and cranial index. mean cranial breadth is 12.67cms, mean cranial length 16.87cms and cranial index 75.25, mean pyriform aperture height is 3.05cms, height of pyriform aperture in males is 3cms and mean pyriform aperture in females=3.18cms. Pyriform aperture does not showed any significance with respect to cranial length (p=0.46), cranial breadth (p=0.15) and cranial index (p=0.13).on comparison between males and females, maximum cranial breadth found highly significant (t=5.20, p=0.001), maximum cranial length significant (t=2.20,p=0.001), cranial index does not showed significance (t=1.30,p=0.18) and height of pyriform aperture showed significance (t=2.20, p=0.03)