Foot index: Is it a tool for sex determination?

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 223-226

  Moudgil, Rohan ^a   Kaur, Ramneet ^a   Menezes, Ritesh G ^b   Kanchan, Tanuj ^b   Garg, Rakesh K ^a  

^a PUNJABI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Foot index; Forensic anthropology; Forensic science; Identification; North India; Physical anthropology; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT INDEX; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOOT; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DETERMINATION BY SKELETON;

EID: 41949092519     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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