brachycephalic
/brak-ee-suh-fal-ik/US // ˌbræk i səˈfæl ɪk //UK // (ˌbrækɪsɪˈfælɪk) //
肱骨型,大脑发达的,大脑发达,大脑型
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Cephalometry.
- : short-headed; having a cephalic index of 81.0–85.4.
Examples
Brachycephalic and dolichocephalic people nearly equal in number.
There were certainly several if not many waves of brachycephalic migrations into Europe, of which this was the first.
The few human remains from the earliest lake-dwellings are all brachycephalic—short-heads.
The skull shape of the Lombards, says Flinders Petrie, changed from dolichocephalic to brachycephalic in a few hundred years.
A few equally mystical Greek words, brachycephalic and dolichocephalic, are the watchwords of the crusades of to-day.
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