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

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facial angle

The facial angle was low and slanting and the coarse lips were hideously twisted in a snarl of death and defiance.

From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

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

Considerable emphasis used to be laid on the facial angle between a line drawn parallel to the base of the skull and one obliquely vertical touching the teeth and most prominent portion of the forehead.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler

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

From Vagaries by Axel Munthe

Tennyson and the latest murderer apparently owned the same facial angle, if one corrected the droop of the eyebrow, the curve of the nostril, the set of the ear.

From Ringfield A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison