Mukhopadhyay Partha Pratim
Department of Forensic and State Medicine, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, West Bengal, India.
J Forensic Leg Med. 2010 Aug;17(6):321-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2010.04.014. Epub 2010 May 5.
Hyoid is a U-shaped bone present in the ventral aspect of neck at the level of fourth cervical vertebra. Morphological variants of hyoid are well documented. The present study was designed to identify these morphological features and examine the sexual dimorphism of adult hyoid bone in Indian Bengali population. The present work consisted of direct measurement in autopsy cases in a population specific sample. It was observed that the hyoid was larger in males regarding width, antero-posterior length and slope of cornu. Using t-Test with alpha level of 0.05 the length of greater cornu was found to be the only variable not significantly different in the two sexes (p = .116).
舌骨是一块呈U形的骨头，位于颈部腹侧第四颈椎水平。舌骨的形态变异已有充分记载。本研究旨在识别这些形态特征，并研究印度孟加拉人群中成年舌骨的性别差异。本研究工作包括对特定人群尸检病例进行直接测量。观察发现，男性舌骨在宽度、前后长度和角的倾斜度方面更大。使用α水平为0.05的t检验，发现大角的长度是两性中唯一无显著差异的变量（p = 0.116）。
