mesocephalic
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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
One Kalabit is platycephalic, 1 mesocephalic, and 8 hypsicephalic as regards length-height, and all are hypsicephalic as regards breadth-height.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon
The head is usually hypsicephalic, but 1 is platycephalic as regards breadth-height, 2 are mesocephalic both in length-height and breadth-height, 5 are mesocephalic in length-height and 3 in breadth-height.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon
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