facial angle

American  

noun

1. Craniometry. the angle formed by a line from nasion to prosthion at its intersection with the plane of the Frankfurt horizontal.

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facial angle British  

noun

1. the angle formed between a line from the base of the nose to the opening of the ear and a line from the base of the nose to the most prominent part of the forehead: often used in comparative anthropology

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Etymology

Origin of facial angle

First recorded in 1815–25

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Example Sentences

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facial angle

When both jaws are arrested Camper’s disobedience of the rules of art, whereby the facial angle is increased over 90°, occurs.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot

He supposes that a race of quadrumanous apes gradually acquired the upright position in walking, with a corresponding modification of the feet and facial angle.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler

I deem this a pendant to Camper’s discovery of the facial angle, and one too which was not quite so obvious or so easy to be made.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

And the law of selection enlarged his facial angle, and culture put arms in his hands.

From Vagaries by Axel Munthe

But they had the same facial angle; they were of about the same age, thirty-five; each was tall, square-shouldered, and erect, and each had the same curious gait that betokens long experience in the saddle.

From The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson

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