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An Anthropometric Study of External Ear of Medical Students in India

T. Praveen , Mirza R.U. Beg1 , T. Praveen2

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Indian Journal of Anatomy 8(1):p 41-44, January-March 2019. | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ija.2320.0022.8119.8

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Anthropometric refers to the measurements of living human body dimensions for the purpose of understanding human physical variation as it plays an important role in plastic surgery, prosthetics, so on for data collection. Many studies have defined human body parts and their proportion to each other morphometrically in human ear is the defining feature of the face and its structure shows the signs of age & sex. The human ear is divided in to external, middle and internal parts.Pinna & external acoustic meatus form the external ear. This study was carried out on 100 medical students age ranges from 17-26 years (44 females/56 males) studying in Ayaan institute of medical sciences, kanakamamidi, R.R. Dist. Telangana Subjects with evidence of congenital ear anomalies or previous ear surgeries excluded from the study. Following parameters of the external ear measured according to Mckinney et al. methodology. Anthropological measurement of external ear was found significantly different in male and females. Knowledge about the normal ear dimensions is important in the diagnosis of congenital malformations, syndromes and acquired deformities as well as planning of treatment & hearing instruments industry. This study provides the mean values of the different morphometric measurements of right & left ears in the medical students age ranging from 17-26 years in Indian region. 

 

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External ear; Anthropometric measurements; Hearing instruments; Plastic surgery. 

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