facial index

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noun

Craniometry. the ratio of the breadth of a face to its height.

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Origin of facial index

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby facial index

facia, facial, facial angle, facial eczema, facial feminization surgery, facial index, facialist, facial masculinization surgery, facial nerve, facial tissue, -facient

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How to use facial index in a sentence

A helpful pictorial index provides photographs of the actual objects.
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There is an expanded place-name index with more than 150,000 entries, and separate undersea, Moon, and Mars features.
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He stuck his index finger in the red welt around the spot where bin Laden shot me.
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He knew all about cilantro and the best facial cleanses, but in bed and on the kitchen table he was all about the ladies.
How Straight World Stole ‘Gay’: The Last Gasp of the ‘Lumbersexual’|Tim Teeman|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Until then, men shall all wearily grow our facial hair, wear flannel, and confuse the hell out of each other out on the streets.
How Straight World Stole ‘Gay’: The Last Gasp of the ‘Lumbersexual’|Tim Teeman|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The degree of pallor furnishes a rough index to the amount of hemoglobin in the corpuscle.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Wright and his followers regard the opsonic index as an index of the power of the body to combat bacterial invasion.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
A low color-index probably indicates a mild type of the disease.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The color-index is thus almost invariably low, the average being about 0.5.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The changes in hemoglobin and red cells resemble those of a moderate symptomatic anemia, with rather low color-index.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

British Dictionary definitions for facial index

facial index

noun

the ratio of the length of the face to the width of the face multiplied by 100: often used in comparative anthropologyCompare cranial index

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