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Variation in shape of the lingula in the adult human mandible

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2000

A. TULI
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
R. CHOUDHRY
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
S. CHOUDHRY
Affiliation:
ICARE Hospital, Noida, U.P., India
S. RAHEJA
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
S. AGARWAL
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
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Abstract

The lingulae of both sides of 165 dry adult human mandibles, 131 males and 34 females of Indian origin, were classified by their shape into 4 types: 1, triangular; 2, truncated; 3, nodular; and 4, assimilated. Triangular lingulae were found in 226 (68.5%) sides, truncated in 52 (15.8%), nodular in 36 (10.9%) and assimilated in 16 (4.8%) sides. Triangular lingulae were found bilaterally in 110, truncated in 23, nodular in 17 and assimilated in 7 mandibles. Of the remaining 8 mandibles with different appearances on the 2 sides, 6 had a combination of triangular and truncated and 2 had nodular and assimilated. The incidence of triangular and assimilated types in the male and female mandibles are almost equal. In the truncated type it was double in the male mandibles while the nodular type was a little less than double in the female mandibles.

Type
Short Report
Copyright
© Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2000

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