cranial index

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noun Craniometry.

cephalic index.

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Origin of cranial index

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby cranial index

crane, crane fly, cranesbill, Cranford, cranial, cranial index, cranial nerve, craniate, cranio-, craniocerebral, craniofacial

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How to use cranial index in a sentence

A helpful pictorial index provides photographs of the actual objects.
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There is an expanded place-name index with more than 150,000 entries, and separate undersea, Moon, and Mars features.
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He stuck his index finger in the red welt around the spot where bin Laden shot me.
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The country was ranked 144 of 177 nations surveyed by Transparency International in its 2013 graft perception index.
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He soon invents the “Efram Daniels Expulsion Index (EDEI) … a hybrid futures and prediction market.”
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The degree of pallor furnishes a rough index to the amount of hemoglobin in the corpuscle.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Wright and his followers regard the opsonic index as an index of the power of the body to combat bacterial invasion.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
A low color-index probably indicates a mild type of the disease.
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The color-index is thus almost invariably low, the average being about 0.5.
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The changes in hemoglobin and red cells resemble those of a moderate symptomatic anemia, with rather low color-index.
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British Dictionary definitions for cranial index

cranial index

noun

the ratio of the greatest length to the greatest width of the cranium, multiplied by 100: used in comparative anthropologyCompare cephalic index

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