dolicho-

American  

1. a combining form meaning “long” or “narrow”.

   dolichocephalic.

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Etymology

Origin of dolicho-

< Greek, combining form of dolichós

Example Sentences

Thus he finds that in the brachy districts the urban population is less brachy than the rural, while in the dolicho districts the towns are more brachy than the plains.

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Of the 688 skulls from those stations measured by him, 57.7 per cent. are classed as dolicho, 21.2 as brachycephalic, and 21.1 as intermediate.

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Thus the Minnetaris are highly dolicho; the Poncas and Osages sub-brachy; the Algonquians variable, while the Siouans oscillate widely round a mesaticephalous mean.

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The most typical cases both of brachy and dolicho deformation are from the Cerro de las Palmas graves in south-west Mexico.

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The following are the measurements of the two skulls which I have made carefully; and alongside the average measurements of the Brachycephalic type given by Dr. Daniel Wilson, as well as of the Dolichocephalic:   Average  Dolicho-  cephalic.  

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