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MESOCEPHALIC

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 179 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MESOCEPHALIC , a

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TERM

term applied by anthropologists to those skulls which exhibit a cephalic

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INDEX

index intermediate between the

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DOLICHOCEPHALIC (long-headed)

dolichocephalic and

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BRACHYCEPHALIC (Gr. for short-headed)

brachycephalic crania (see

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CRANIOMETRY

CRANIOMETRY) . Taking the longer

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

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SKULL

skull, i.e. the one from front to back, as too, mesocephalic skulls are those of which the trans-

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VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse diameter varies between 75 to 80 .

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