dolichocephaly love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as dolichocephalism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.

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  • noun medicine The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.

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  • noun the quality of being dolichocephalic

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Examples

  • From Central Asia eastward to the Pacific Islands and subcontinents on the one hand, and to America on the other, brachycephaly and orthognathism gradually diminish, and are replaced by dolichocephaly and prognathism, less, however, on the

    Essays 2007

  • Those of the melanodermic or black race are: excessive length of the legs; total height 7 to 7.5 heads; skin from dark brown almost to black; the hair of the head thick, black, and frizzly, with an elliptical cross-section; hair on the body scant; an inclination to dolichocephaly (with a very decided breadth of the skull behind); pronounced prognathism; powerful broad, and high jaws.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • American races; the Monoglians appear to be rather mesobrachycephalic and hyperbrachycephalic, while the black races incline more to dolichocephaly.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Thus the vast majority of heads are mesaticephalic with more tendency toward brachycephaly than to dolichocephaly.

    The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon David Prescott Barrows 1913

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    Rational Review 2009

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