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CEPHALIC INDEX

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 684 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CEPHALIC

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INDEX

INDEX , the

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TERM

term in use by anthropologists to

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EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express the percentage of breadth to length in any

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SKULL

skull . The principle employed by Retzius is to take the longer

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DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

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

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DOLICHOCEPHALIC (long-headed)

dolichocephalic), while if it exceeds 8o the skull is broad (

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BRACHYCEPHALIC (Gr. for short-headed)

brachycephalic) (see

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CRANIOMETRY

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