International Journal of Contemporary Research in Multidisciplinary

Abstract:

Determining the sex of human skeletal remains is vital for building a biological profile of an individual in medico-legal and bioarchaeological studies. The present study was conducted on 64 femur bone (32 male and 32 female). at National Medical College Birgunj, Nepal. Seven measurements of femur were collected. The descriptive statistics were done to find out the significant difference between the femur bone of male and female. The mean values of all the seven parameters were considerably greater in males as compared to females (P<0.001) with univariate analysis. The most dimorphic single metric on the basis of discriminant analysis was maximum length of femur with accuracy 87.1% in females and 61.3% in males. In vertical diameter of head of the femur with accuracy 93.5% in female and 83.9% in male. Epicondyle breadth and mid shaft diameter of femur exhibited 90.3% and 96.8% in female. Whereas Proximal breadth in male femur with accuracy 96.8% in female with accuracy 80.6%. Femur could be used for assessing the gender, in which breath is significantly responsible for large variation in comparison to length.

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Sex Determination, Femur bone, Osteometric Measurements, Discrimination analysis

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