dolichocephalic
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On the walls hung eight profiles of hawk-faced Sherlock Holmes, a curved pipe pendent from his thin lips and a deerstalker cap pushed down on his dolichocephalic skull.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fragment of the skull "showed a depressed forehead, strongly projecting superciliary arches, and a type, on the whole, approaching the so-called dolichocephalic, or long-headed form."
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)
The head is of the marked dolichocephalic type, flattened at the sides, face is oval more or less, with thick eyebrows, eyes rather prominent, nose broadish and long, lower jaw prominent and firm.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
The tall, blonde Teutonic type of the Row graves is dolichocephalic.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.
The Negritos and Pygmies are everywhere brachycephalic, or short-headed, with the exception of the Bushmen, who are dolichocephalic, or partially so.
From Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution by Morris, Charles
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