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DOLICHOCEPHALIC (long-headed)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 389 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOLICHOCEPHALIC (See also:long-headed)  , a See also:term invented by Andreas Retzius to denote (as opposed to " See also:brachycephalic ") those skulls the See also:diameter of which from See also:side to side, or the transverse diameter, is small in comparison with the See also:longitudinal diameter or that from front to back . Retzius, though inventing the term, did not define it precisely . See also:Paul See also:Broca applied it to skulls having a cephalic See also:index of seventy-five and under, and this limit is generally adopted . Dolichocephaly, according to Retzius, was the distinctive See also:cranial feature of the earliest inhabitants of See also:Europe . To-See also:day it is characteristic of the See also:negro races, of the See also:Papuans, the Polynesians and the Australians, though among the See also:negritos and some of the pigmy races of See also:Africa brachycephalic skulls are the See also:rule . Of the yellow races the See also:Eskimo is the most See also:dolichocephalic . Of See also:white races the See also:Arabs and See also:Kabyles of See also:Algeria, and the Guanchos of the See also:Canary Islands, are most notable for dolichocephalic tendency . Dolichocephaly is some-times frontal, as among adult whites, sometimes occipital or confined to the back of the See also:head, as among inferior negro-races, Australians, Papuans and newly-See also:born whites .

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