cephalic index
Cephalometry, Craniometry. the ratio of the greatest breadth of the head to its greatest length from front to back, multiplied by 100.
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During the Bronze Age the cephalic index rises all over middle and western Europe.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerIt depends entirely—to use the pedantic jargon of the anthropologist—on the “cephalic index” of the race.
German Problems and Personalities | Charles SaroleaTarde suggests that the study of the cephalic index will throw light upon the problem—no satisfactory solution, I think!
Social Value | B. M. AndersonSkull capacity and cephalic index are not so much indications of race as of intellect.
The average cephalic index of eight skulls removed from the mounds was found to be 110.
The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras | Thomas William Francis Gann
British Dictionary definitions for cephalic index
the ratio of the greatest width of the human head to its greatest length, multiplied by 100
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