This study sought to provide an up-to-date review of the importance of anatomy to human
identification, focusing on the usefulness of anatomical knowledge about the head and neck …

Since 1856 lots of forensic reports, concerning trauma to the hyoid bone and laryngeal
cartilages in hanging, have been published. Differences in percentage of injured neck …

The hyoid bone supports the important functions of swallowing and speech. At birth, the
hyoid bone consists of a central body and pairs of right and left lesser and greater cornua …

Sex estimation is an essential step in the identification process of unknown heavily
decomposed human remains as it eliminates all possible matches of the opposite sex from …

The hyoid bone (hyoid) is a small U-shaped (horseshoe-shaped) solitary bone, situated in
the midline of the neck anteriorly at the base of the mandible and posteriorly at the fourth …

Sex determination for unidentified human remains is important because the determined sex
is usually used as a foundation for the estimation of other biological profiles. This study …

Six discriminant functions, developed from an historic White population, were tested on a
contemporary White population for determination of sex from the hyoid. One hundred and …

The purpose of present study was to apply histomorphometry to estimate the age at death
using the clavicular osteonal remodeling rate and to develop an age-predicting equation. 46 …

Background Sex estimate is a key stage in forensic science for identifying individuals. Some
anatomical structures may be useful for sex estimation since they retain their integrity even …

Objectives Human hyoid is sexually dimorphic and is useful for sexing unknown skeletal
remains. We aimed to find sex prediction potential of three linear dimensions of hyoid bones …