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Ear witness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

L. Feenstra  and
C. van der Lugt
L. Feenstra
Affiliation:
ENT-department, UZ.St.Rafael, Leuven, Belgium
C. van der Lugt
Affiliation:
Institute for Criminal Investigation and Crime Science, Zutphen, The Netherlands.
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Abstract

A description is given of some aspects of the normal human auricle. The physiognomy of the auricle is different for every individual which leads to the possibility of identifying people based on their auricles. Indeed this has even led to the reading of earprints similar to fingerprints, a fact not generally known amongst ENT-specialists. This highly specialized knowledge has been developed within a special branch of forensic medicine and criminology, called ‘earology’ or ‘otomorphology’. Two illustrative case histories are presented.

Keywords

externalForensicanthropology
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 114 , Issue 7 , July 2000 , pp. 497 - 500
Copyright
Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2000

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