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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. 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.