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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The scientific measurement of the bones of the cranium and the face, used especially in the assessment of facial growth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Measurement of the head or skull; craniometry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anthropometry) The measurement of the heads of living persons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
measurement of theskull , especially in order to study itsgrowth anddevelopment
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun measurement of human heads
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