1Assistant Professor Department of Forensic Medicine, Believers Church Medical College, Thiruvala, Kerala
2Professor Department of Forensic Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College
3Associate Professor Department of Forensic Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College
4Associate Professor Department of Forensic Medicine, Believers Church Medical College, Thiruvala, Kerala
5Assistant Professor Department of Forensic Medicine, Believers Church Medical College, Thiruvala, Kerala
*Corresponding Author, Alex M Varghese, Email: dralexmvarghese@gmail.com, Mobile No.: 9742889294, 9746804496
Online Published on 03 December, 2022.
Stature (living height) is one of the primary characteristics for the identification of a person along with other biological profiles - age, sex, and race. The need for Identification of a person can occur in situations like a mass disaster, unidentified bodies, and many civil cases and criminal cases. As any part of the human body can be found as evidence, there is a need for a study to investigate the significant correlation between stature and cephalon-facial dimensions in the human body. The study was done on 400 medical students of south Indian origin. The study showed a significant correlation between cephalic measurements and stature.
Identification, Stature, Anthropometry, Cranial measurements, Cephalometry
