STUDY OF EXTERNAL EYE DIMENSIONS AS POSSIBLE TOOL FOR SEX IDENTIFICATION IN EGYPTIAN POPULATION

Khater, Sarah Abdel Mohsen; Mohamed, Sahar; Abdallah, Mostafa; Shalaby, Ezz Eldin M

doi:10.21608/ejfsat.2019.18055.1103

STUDY OF EXTERNAL EYE DIMENSIONS AS POSSIBLE TOOL FOR SEX IDENTIFICATION IN EGYPTIAN POPULATION

Document Type : Original Article

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¹ forensic Medicine and clinical Toxicology department Misr university for Science and Technology

² bLecturer of Ophthalmology Department, Beni-Suef University,

³ cLecturerof Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Department, Beni-Suef University

⁴ Cairo university

10.21608/ejfsat.2019.18055.1103

Abstract

Recognition of sex through eye dimensions is important especially that these dimensions is fixed after puberty and not liable for reshape especially in cases of intersex, mutilation of the genitalia ,transsexual cases and mass disasters.use of eye recognition as a biometric identification tool is accurate .aim of the study : is to differentiate between eye shape database of the males and females populations as possible tool for sex identification in male and females population in egypt . Methods: in our study A sum of 100 subjects (49males and 51 females) ranging from 15 to 30 years old were randomly chosen from ophthalmology outpatient clinic, Beni-Suef University, Egypt, interpalpebral distance , intercanthal distance and eye width were taken, The result Throughout the study, was revealed the gender plays a substantial role across the varieties of inter eye distance, data collected can be used as preliminary database for further research
in the field of forensic medicine for sex identification.

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