Knowledge of facial dimensions is important in evaluation of age, sex, and racial differences, in clinical application and in forensic applications. Therefore facial measurements have been used by numerous researchers particularly anatomists, forensic scientists, plastic surgeons, physical anthropologists to establish standardized mean values for skeletal, dental and soft tissue structures as well as for classification of facial morphology of different populations. So the present study aims at studying the morphology of face and its indices of Meitei Male population with a view to find out the secular trend if there be any. The study was conducted on 100 Meitei Males of Bishnupur District, Manipur whose age ranged from 20-60years. Overall findings of the present study show that the present generation is experiencing a secular trend of increasing Morphological Facial Height and decreasing Breadth of Bizygomatic Arch. As for the Facial Index, a positive secular trend is observed in both Morphological Facial Index and Morphological Upper Facial Index, thereby showing a significant difference in frequency percent distribution of facial index between the present and past generation. A tendency from mesoprosopic towards leptoprosopic is observed in the present generation. This study has established the mean facial dimensions of Meitei male adults of Bishnupur District, Manipur.

Cellular differentiation of the developing pancreas was studied in the pancreatic specimens obtained from the aborted fetuses and still births of Manipuri origin using hematoxylin-eosin and modified aldehyde fuchsin stains. Both the exocrine and endocrine components were identified in the 13-16 weeks of gestation, the youngest age group of the study. However, the glandular components were more characterized and differentiated as the gestational age advanced. The pancreas showed presence of an outer covering of loose connective tissue. The islets were devoid of proper capsule, but separated from the surrounding structures by thin layer of connective tissue. The islet cells i.e. alpha, beta and delta cells showed intermingling type of arrangement in all the gestational age groups in the study. The development of glandular components continued throughout the gestational period as evident by the presence of glandular buds at the terminals of branching tubules.