1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, BPS Govt., Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat (Haryana) India
2Associate Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Gian Sagar Medical College, Rajpura, Patiala, Punjab
3Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, BPS Govt., Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat (Haryana) India
4Department of Forensic Medicine, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India
5Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, BPS Govt., Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat (Haryana) India
*Email: surwar10@gmail.com
Physical identity of an individual is one of the most important parameter required to solve a medico legal case. In this stature is one of the most important and useful anthropometric parameter that determines person's identity. In tertiary medical college at Rohtak, Haryana, the present study was conducted comprises of 145 individuals (80 males and 65 females) to find the relation between percutaneous thumb length and stature along with multiplication factor to reconstruct the stature. The correlation coefficient between height and thumb length was found to be positive. It has been observed that stature can be estimated from the thumb length to be used as predictive values by medicolegal experts.
Total body height, thumb length, mean, Biomedical computing, Anthropometry, Correlation
