cranial index

American  

noun

Craniometry.

1. cephalic index.

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cranial index British  

noun

1. the ratio of the greatest length to the greatest width of the cranium, multiplied by 100: used in comparative anthropology Compare cephalic index

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Etymology

Origin of cranial index

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Boas’s finding, which was that the cranial index of children born in America differed from that of children of the same background born in Europe, rocked the field.

From The New Yorker

The skull is dolichocephalic with an average cranial index of 72, prognathous and platyrrhine.

From Project Gutenberg

All these “osseous remains” belong to the palaeolithic period, and from the cranial indices it is thus clear that palaeolithic man was long-headed.

From Project Gutenberg

Order in progress upwards of cranial indices: 8—13—3—6–20—5—ll—7—1—16—18—2—14—9—15—4—12—17—19—10.

From Project Gutenberg

So, for one reason or another, we have often to put up with that very unsatisfactory single-figure description of the head-form which is known as the cranial index.

From Project Gutenberg