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THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF HUMAN EAR DIMENSIONS AND NASAL INDEX IN ESTIMATION OF STATURE AMONG AN ADULT EGYPTIAN POPULATION SAMPLE

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background: Ear biometrics is gaining significant interest and has become the method of identification due to its biological and physiological characteristics. Aim of the work: to study the dimensions of human external ear as well as nasal index among an Egyptian population sample and to use these parameters for stature and sex estimation. Materials and methods: The study was conducted on 200 participants of both sexes aged 18 to 60 years, four measurements of each ear (ear height, ear width, lobular height and lobular width), nasal height, nasal width were measured by Vernier caliper; nasal index was then calculated and stature was measured by Stadiometer. Results: There was a higher male value regarding the right ear height and the right ear width, and right lobular width with statistical significance but there was a higher female value regarding the right lobular height with highly statistically significant difference. Males had higher values regarding the nasal height, width and index. We constructed regression equations to estimate the stature from right ear height, left ear height, left lobular width, nasal height and nasal width. Conclusion: From this study we concluded that stature can be estimated from external ear and nasal measurements. Novel regressions equations were constructed in the current study to estimate stature from ear and nasal measurements as well as differentiation between males and females with significant difference.

DOI

10.21608/ejfsat.2023.243798.1307

Keywords

Anthropology, identification, Stature determination, Ear parameters, Nasal dimensions

Authors

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Noha Maher

Last Name

Elrewieny

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Affiliation

Forensic and Clinical toxicology department- Faculty of medicine ,Cairo University

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noha1986@gmail.com

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Cairo

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First Name

Mai

Last Name

Mahrous

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Forensic and Clinical toxicology department- Faculty of medicine ,Cairo University

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mai_mahrous2@kasralainy.edu.eg

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0000-0003-1472-4686

First Name

Howaida

Last Name

Mohammed

MiddleName

Saeed

Affiliation

Forensic and Clinical toxicology department- Faculty of medicine ,Cairo University

Email

drhsaeedmuhammad@gmail.com

City

Cairo

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First Name

Riham

Last Name

Hussein

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F.

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Forensic and Clinical toxicology department- Faculty of medicine ,Cairo University

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riham2fayez@gmail.com

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23

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4

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44393

Issue Date

2023-12-01

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2023-10-25

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2023-12-01

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101

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116

Print ISSN

1687-0875

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2535-1915

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The Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicology

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https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/

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THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF HUMAN EAR DIMENSIONS AND NASAL INDEX IN ESTIMATION OF STATURE AMONG AN ADULT EGYPTIAN POPULATION SAMPLE

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23 Dec 2024