Abstract

It is a known study of bones conveys information regarding race, sex, age, and height of a person. The present study fact that anthropometric is aimed to find stature from the length of ulnar bone by a regression formula. The study is conducted in the state of Maharashtra. As Maharashtra is a vast land divided into three big regions, viz; Marathawada, Vidharbha and Western Maharashtra. We have preferably chosen the Western region of Maharashtrians. The subjects consisted of 200 medical male and female students. The age group considered was between 20 to 30 years. The students with obvious limb deformity were not included in the study. The length of ulna is measured by asking the subject to flex the elbow joint. The flexor surfaces of arm and forearm made an angle of 90 degree, and keeping the forearm in midprone position. The two points were marked with skin marking pencil, one on the tip of olecrenon process and the other on the styloid process of ulna, and the distance between the two were measured with the help of spreading caliper in centimeters. The standing height in the subject was recorded with an anthropometer. The subject was asked to stand in anatomical position, barefoot, feet together, hands by the side of the body with trunk braced and gaze at the horizon. The results were processed and we tried to find a formula between length of ulna and an individual’s total stature. And it was found out that both length of ulna and individual’s stature has a definite correlation.