nasal index

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noun

Craniometry. (of the skull) the ratio of the distance from nasion to the lower margin of the nasal aperture to that of the maximum breadth of the nasal aperture.

Cephalometry. (of the head) the ratio of the maximum breadth of the external nose to its height from the nasal root to where the septum is confluent with the upper lip.

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Origin of nasal index

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby nasal index

nasal cavity, nasal concha, nasal crest, Nasalcrom, Nasalide, nasal index, nasalize, nasally, nasal meatus, nasal muscle, nasal pit

How to use nasal 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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Called by the hoity toity term of nasal insufflation, this method was used by some in Asia till a few hundred years ago.
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Among them were some horrifying images of severe damage to nasal tissue caused by a child lodging a button battery in her nose.
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The degree of pallor furnishes a rough index to the amount of hemoglobin in the corpuscle.
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Wright and his followers regard the opsonic index as an index of the power of the body to combat bacterial invasion.
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A low color-index probably indicates a mild type of the disease.
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The color-index is thus almost invariably low, the average being about 0.5.
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Gunn possessed a purple complexion which attained to full vigor of coloring in the nasal region.
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British Dictionary definitions for nasal index

nasal index

noun

the ratio of the widest part of the nose to its length multiplied by 100

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