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

Example Sentences

I judged it to be a dim idea of the facial angle.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

The criterion in these cases must be the facial angle.

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

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 Robertson, Morgan

The facial angle of the orang, which has been estimated at from 60° to 64°, he finds in the adult animal is only 30°—i. e.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

It is this very generality and fixedness, which render it, in almost all cases, inapplicable; this is the inherent defect in the supposed importance of Camper’s facial angle.

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