Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 42
  • Issue: 4

A Study On Using Sexual Dimorphism From The Pyriform Aperture Of Dry Human Skull Among The Eastern Indian Adults

  • Author:
  • Soumeek Chowdhuri1,*, Bishan Basu2, Somasish Ghosal3, Writa Mridha4, Phalguni Srimani5, Aloke Majumder6
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 55 to 58

1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic and State Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College

2Associate Professor, Department of Radiotherapy, Jhargram Government Medical College

3PhD Research Scholar, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani

4Undergraduate student, Calcutta National Medical College

5Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, Calcutta National Medical College

6Professor, Department of Forensic and State Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College

*Corresponding author. E-mail address: smk.kgp@gmail.com (Dr. Soumeek Chowdhuri)

Online published on 12 March, 2026.

Abstract

Sexual dimorphism is required in cases of natural disasters, recognition of fragmented bones and beyond forensic identification. Pyriform aperture (PA) is a pear-shaped structure in the human skull, bounded by the frontal process of maxillary bone on the lateral aspect, and the nasal bones in upper. Data from the present study shows that various measurements taken from pyriform aperture and nasal bones can be a useful forensic tool in sexual dimorphism.

Keywords

Forensic science, Anthropology, Morphometry, Human skull, Clinical