mesocephalic
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Broca's "Kymric" skulls are mesocephalic; this he attributes to crossing with the short round-heads.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch
The head is distinctly hypsicephalic, only 5 being mesocephalic as regards length-height.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon
Three men are mesocephalic as regards length-height, otherwise both sexes are hypsicephalic both in length-height and breadth-height, the women being more so than the men.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon
No one, he believed, had ever maintained that a mesocephalic skull was split or differentiated into a dolichocephalic and a brachycephalic variety in the bright sunshine of history.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various
Besides the general division of skulls into dolichocephalic, brachycephalic, and mesocephalic, other divisions had been undertaken, according to the height of the skull, and again according to the maxillary and the facial angles.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various
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