craniology
noun
the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
craniological
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a word derived from
craniology.
Example Sentences
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A second excursion, still in Mr. Hill's company, was made 60after craniological specimens to Long Bay, twelve miles distant, among whose thickets a few natives had been residing for some weeks.
His having taken so much pains in collecting facts and drawings on this point, necessarily leads to the inference that he attaches much value to the craniological distinctions.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
To throw more than a cursory glance at them Would lead me into interminable disquisitions of a mythological, anthropological, craniological, and antediluvian nature for which one would not find universal approval among his readers.
From Across China on Foot by Edwin John Dingle
I know positively that I mashed it into a pulp, for I tried afterwards to measure it, and found that for craniological purposes it was utterly valueless.
From The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
Their determined adhesion to Slav ideals and rejection of Turkish ways should serve as a reminder to anthropologists that peoples are not mainly to be judged and divided off by craniological peculiarities.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose
