[Sex differences in the human sternum].
We investigated 14 male and 14 female breast-bones of adult human beings by measuring 2 parameters of length, 2 of breadth and 2 of thickness and estimated their frequency distributions. They overlap more or less. Therefore we made a discriminant analysis in order to differentiate male and female skeletons by means of a-l 6 measures of the breast-bone. The result was satisfying. The received discriminant function may be used in the sex diagnosis in forensic osteology, especially, if the more reliable criterions of the pelvic measures are missing.
D000886:Anthropometry; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D012272:Ribs / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012737:Sex Factors; D013249:Sternum / Q000033:anatomy & histology*
Die Geschlechtsunterschiede des menschlichen Sternums