Anthropometric Study of External Ear: A Comparative Study

Introduction: Ear is the most defining feature of face and its structure shows signs age sex. The external ears consist auricle acoustic meatus. This study was specifically under taken to variations in dimensions, specially height width, amongst Nepalese medical nursing students compare them. Materials Methods: conducted on National Medical College, Birgunj, Nepal, with no evidence congenital ear anomalies or previous surgeries. consisted 110 females males, aged 18–25 years. Results: descriptive statistics variables evaluated measured both right left sides. length ranged from 6.31- 6.30 cm being significantly larger than (p=0.010). Similarly, breadth wider comparison breadth, range 3.39- 3. 38 (p=0.084). lobular 2.38- 2.36 (p=0.001) 1.96- 1.93 (p=0.000) which were also compared differences reached level statistically significant. Conclusion: anthropometric measurements male showed higher value when female students. These results support findings that sexual dimorphism does exit significant between sexes. found be width