A Study of Metopic Suture in Adult North Indian Skulls
Study of Metopic Suture
Keywords:
Metopism ,metopic suture, cranial VariantAbstract
Background:- Studies of non metric cranial variants have been a field of considerable interest to research workers especially because of their racial and regional importance. Material and Methods:- Total of 40 north Indian skulls of U.P. were studied for the incidence of metopism, a cranial variant in the present study. Results:- Metopism was found in 2(5%) of total of human skulls. Conclusion:-The presence of Metopic suture found to be of considerable regional and racial significance and it simulates fracture of frontal bone, therefore its presence should be properly ruled out in X-rays.
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2. Piersol GA. Human Anatomy, 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott; 1916.
3. Romanes GJ. Cunningham’s text book of Anatomy, 11th ed, London: Oxford university press; 1972. p. 133.
4. Torgerson J. Developmental, genetic evolutionary meaning of metopic suture. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 1951; 9: 193-210.
5. Warwick R and Williams PL. Gray’s Anatomy, 36th ed. London: Longmans; 1980. p. 334.
6. Hamilton WJ. Text book of Anatomy, 2nd ed. London: Macmillan and Co; 1976. p. 60.
7. Basmajian JV. Grant’s method of Anatomy, 9th ed. New Delhi: S Chand and Co. Ltd: Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, Co; 1975. p. 451-604.
8. Le Double AF. Variations des Os du Crane.Paris: Vigot; 1975. p. 400.
9. Wood-Jones F. The non-metrical morphological characters of the skull as Criteria for racial diagnosis: Part IV. The non-metrical morphological characters of the Northern Chinese skull. J.Anat. 1933; 68(1): 96-108.
10. Jorgensen JB, Laughlin WS. Isolate variation in Greenlandic Eskimo crania .Acta Genet Stat Med. 1956; 6(1 Part 2): 3-12.
11. Berry AC, Berry RJ. Epigenetic variation in the human cranium. J Anat. 1967; 101: 361-380.
12. Moller-Christensen V, Sandison AT. Usura orbitae (enbra orbitalia) in the collection ofcrania in the anatomy department of university of Glasgow. Path Microbiol. 1963; 26: 175-183.
13. Roche AF. Aural exotoses in Australian aboriginal skulls. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 1964; 73: 82-91.
14. Dorsey GA. Wormian bones in artificially deformed Kwakiutl crania. Am Anthrop. 1897; 10:169-173.
15. Wood-jones F. The non-metrical morphological characters of the skull as Criteria for racial diagnosis: Part III. The non-metrical morphological characters of the skull of prehistoric inhabitants of Guam. J.Anat. 1931; 65(4): 438-45.
16. Berry AC. Factors affecting the incidence of non-metrical skeletal variants. J Anat. 1975; 120 (3): 519-535.
17. Bryce TH. Osteology and Arthrology. In Quain’s elements of Anatomy.11th ed, London, Longmans Green; 1915. p. 177.
18. Das AC, Saxena RC And Deo MAQ. Incidence of metopic suture in U.P. subjects. Journal of Anatomical society of India. 1973; 22: 140.
19. Agarwal SK, Malhotra VK and Tewari SP. Incidence of the metopic suture in adult Indian crania. Acta anatomica. 1979; 105:469-474.
20. Ajmani ML, Mittal RK, Jain SP. Incidence of metopic suture in adult Nigerian skulls. Journal of anatomy. 1983; 137 (1): 177-183.
21. Jit I, Shah MA. Incidence of frontal and metopic suture amongst Punjabi adults. Indian medical gazette. 1948;83: 507.
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2012-03-31
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Rakesh, G., Nema, U., & S.H.H, Z. (2012). A Study of Metopic Suture in Adult North Indian Skulls: Study of Metopic Suture. National Journal of Integrated Research in Medicine, 3(1), 82–84. Retrieved from http://nicpd.ac.in/ojs-/index.php/njirm/article/view/1973
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