Morphometric study of External Ear Of Medical Students in Jammu And Kashmir.

Uzma Rasool; Arish Nazir Shora; Nowsheeba Kurshid; Ashfaq ul Hassan

Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

Morphometric study of External Ear Of Medical Students in Jammu And Kashmir.

Uzma Rasool, Arish Nazir Shora, Nowsheeba Kurshid, Ashfaq Ul Hassan

Abstract :

Introduction: The auricle or auricular is the visible part of the ear that resides outside the head. It is also called as pinna from a latin word wing/ fin. The auricle is trumpet like undulating projection on the side of head. The entire pinna except its lobule is made up of a single piece of crumpled yellow elastic cartilage covered with skin. The auricular cartilage is continuous with the cartilage of external auditory meatus. Material and method: the study was carried out on 50 first year medical students in the Department of Anatomy, SKIMS Medical College, Srinagar. The study consists of 25 male and 25 female students between the age group of 18 to 22 years. Following parameters of external ear were taken: Ear height, Ear width, Ear index in cm. Result : the measurements of right and left ear among male students, reveals that mean height of right ear is more than the mean height of left ear, whereas mean of ear width is almost similar, but mean of right ear index is more than the left ear, it concludes that dimensions of the right ear is more than the left ear but the difference is insignificant.Similarly the measurements of right and left ear among the female students, reveals that mean height, mean width and mean index of left ear is more than the right ear, but the difference is insignificant. Nevertheless when we compared it between males and females the mean height of ear in males was more than the females and the difference is significant (p <0.05).Conclusion: the study provides mean values of different parameters of right and left ear among males and females. This data may act as baseline to guide plastic surgeons to reconstruct malformed ear and can also help the forensic experts in identification of body.