A Medicolegal Study of Ear Lengths in the Forensic Autopsy Cases / 대한법의학회지

ABSTRACT

Authors measured the length of the auricle of both sides, and the length of face to know the medicolegal significance of them in 265 medicolegal autopsy cases. The data were analyzed by anthropometric study method to gain the ear-face height index (auricular length x 100/facial length). The results were as follows 1. The relationship between the ear-face height indices of the length of life is statistically significant (r=0.34; p<0.001). 2. The relationship between the ear-face height indices of the length of life is higher than in females than males (males r=0.28, females r=0.51). 3. In the natural deaths and homicide cases, the relationship between the ear-face height indices of the length of life is higher than the accidental deaths and suicide cases, however, the natural death cases only show statistically significant relationship between the ear-face height indices of the length of life (p<0.05).