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CEPHALIC See also:INDEX , the See also:term in use by anthropologists to See also:express the percentage of breadth to length in any See also:skull . The principle employed by Retzius is to take the longer See also:diameter of a skull, the antero-posterior diameter, as zoo; if the shorter or transverse diameter falls below 8o the skull may be classed as See also:long (See also:dolichocephalic), while if it exceeds 8o the skull is broad (See also:brachycephalic) (see See also:CRANIOMETRY) . |
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