1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Late. B.R. K. M. Government Medical College, Jagdalpur, Chattisgarh
2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Late. B.R. K. M. Government Medical College, Jagdalpur, Chattisgarh
3Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal
4Dean, L. N. Medical College, Bhopal
Online published on 19 July, 2017.
Identification of sex from unknown skeletal remains is a challenging issue in forensic casework. Sex determination from long bones, skull and pelvis is well studied and documented. The hyoid bone, however, has remained the least noticed bone for sex determination. In the present study, 100 adult hyoid bones-72 male and 28 female, removed from corpses [after written, informed consent from the relatives] and buried in soil, were examined using discriminant function analysis (IBM SPSS20). Five discriminant functions were tested and obtained. Discriminant Function = 1.738 thl + (−0.542) thw + 1.278 mlb +1.240 disgrcor-11.969. Cut off score was-0.410, 84% accurately classified into their groups. Cross-validated results showed correct classification in 83% of the cases.
Adult, Discriminant function, Hyoid bone, Sex determination
