Sexing the human sternum

Bibliographic Data

ID8315359
AuthorsIndar Jit (Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research), Veena Jhingan (Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research), Mangala Kulkarni (Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research)
Year1980
Volume53
Issue2
Pages217-224
Publication date1980-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ajpa.1330530206
PMID7416254
OpenAlexW2022902167
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited1

For differentiating a male from a female sternum, a metrical study of 400 adult North Indian sterna (312 males and 88 females) obtained from medicolegal postmortems was made. If the combined length of the manubrium and mesosternum was more than 140 mm. the sternum was male, and if less than 131 mm. it was female. No opinion could be given if the length was between 131 and 140 mm. By this measurement 72.12% male and 62.50% female sterna could be sexed with 100% accuracy. The length of the mesosternum alone could also determine the sex correctly in 50.32% male and 29.55% female specimens. The length of the manubrium, manubrium–corpus index, width of the first or third sternebra or their index, were not found to be useful in sexing a given sternum. By using multivariate analysis the probability of correctly identifying the sex of a sternum was over 85

Biology · Sexing · Sternum · Zoology · Anatomy · Bone fractures and treatments · Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation · Torture, Ethics, and Law