mesocephalic
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One man is platycephalic, 3 men and 1 woman mesocephalic and the rest hypsicephalic as regards length-height, all are hypsicephalic as regards breadth-height, in each respect the women being markedly more hypsicephalic than the men.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)
Broca's "Kymric" skulls are mesocephalic; this he attributes to crossing with the short round-heads.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.
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
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 Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)
Two are mesocephalic in the length-height index and none in the breadth-height, all the remainder are hypsicephalic in both respects; 4 are pyriform, 2 oval, and 1 ellipsoidal in shape.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)
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