Indian Journal of Clinical Anatomy and Physiology 2021;8(2):140–144 Content available at: https://www.ipinnovative.com/open-access-journals Indian Journal of Clinical Anatomy and Physiology Journal homepage: https://www.ijcap.org/ Original Research Article Estimation of stature from little finger length and formulation of regression equation in both sexes Shradha Iddalgave 1 , Nagesh Kuppast 2 , Ranjna Janagal 3, *, Sundip Charmode 3 , Pratik V Tawade 4 , Rajesh Sangram 5 , Prakash I Babladi 6 , Simmi Mehra 3 1 Dept. of Anatomy, Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India 2 Dept. of Anatomy, ESIC Medical College, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India 3 Dept. of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rajkot, Gujarat, India 4 Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 5 Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, ESIC MC, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India 6 Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received 15-06-2021 Accepted 22-06-2021 Available online 06-07-2021 Keywords: Stature Height Little finger length Regression equation Correlation coefficient ABSTRACT Estimation of stature or height of a person is subject to variations during life due to muscular relaxation and elasticity of intervertebral discs, but could be still valuable in identification. Stature of an individual may reduce as age advances after 30 years due to natural senile degeneration. The stature will be reduced by 0.6mm per year after thirty. The identification of the dead body and corpus delicti is important before sentence is passed in murder trials. The present study was carried in the department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, ESIC Medical College, Kalburagi. Total 140 students (70 males and 70 females) from ESIC Medical College, Kalburagi were randomly selected for the study. The present study “Estimation of stature from little finger length and formulation of regression equation in both sexes” is taken with the aim, to determine correlation between stature and little finger length of a person and develop regression formulae to estimate stature from little finger length for both male and female sexes separately. The results of this study showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between the little finger length and the stature. In this study females shows strong correlation between little finger length and stature compared to males. The regression equation developed in the study can be used to estimate stature of a person efficiently with SE of 6.6289 and 6.5957 in males for right little finger and left little finger respectively and SE of 6.3239 and 5.3946 in females for right little finger length and left little finger length respectively. © This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 1. Introduction Estimation of stature or height of a person is subject to variations during life due to muscular relaxation and elasticity of intervertebral discs but could be still valuable in identification. 1 Stature of an individual may reduce as age advances after 30 years due to natural senile degeneration. The stature will be reduced by 0.6mm per year after thirty. In lying posture, the length will be more by approximately 2 cm. body length lengthens after death by about 2cm. * Corresponding author. E-mail address: ranjna608@gmail.com (R. Janagal). Due to relaxation of muscles and joints, but when the rigor mortis is set in, there will be not much difference in length. 2 Stature estimation from dismembered body parts can be done on the basis of the ratio of the body part concerned, in relation to the entire body. 1 To trace the victim’s movement and to know the background, dead victim should be identified by the police. To solve the crime, victim’s identity is very important, otherwise it is difficult to solve the crime. The identification of the dead body and corpus delicti is important before sentence is passed in murder trials. 3 Among various identification data’s stature along with age and sex are considered as primary characteristics https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijcap.2021.032 2394-2118/© 2021 Innovative Publication, All rights reserved. 140