cephalic index

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noun

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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Origin of cephalic index

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby cephalic index

cephalad, cephalalgia, cephalate, cephalexin, cephalic, cephalic index, cephalic version, cephalin, cephalitis, cephalization, cephalo-

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How to use cephalic index in a sentence

During the Bronze Age the cephalic index rises all over middle and western Europe.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe|John M. Tyler
It depends entirely—to use the pedantic jargon of the anthropologist—on the “cephalic index” of the race.
German Problems and Personalities|Charles Sarolea
Tarde suggests that the study of the cephalic index will throw light upon the problem—no satisfactory solution, I think!
Social Value|B. M. Anderson
Skull capacity and cephalic index are not so much indications of race as of intellect.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, August 1899|Various

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

cephalic index

noun

the ratio of the greatest width of the human head to its greatest length, multiplied by 100

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