"Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?"
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Brachycephalic
//ˌbɹæk.ɪ.səˈfæl.ɪk//
Synonyms for "brachycephalic" (11 found)
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9 translations across 8 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- braquicèfal adj (having a head that is short from front to back)
Finnish
1 entries- lyhytkalloinen adj (having a head that is short from front to back)
French
1 entries- brachycéphale adj (having a head that is short from front to back)
Italian
1 entries- brachicefalo adj (having a head that is short from front to back)
Portuguese
2 entries- braquicefálico adj (having a head that is short from front to back)
- braquicéfalo adj (having a head that is short from front to back)
Romanian
1 entries- brahicefal adj (having a head that is short from front to back)
Spanish
1 entries- braquicéfalo adj (having a head that is short from front to back)
Tagalog
1 entries- punggok-uluhin adj (having a head that is short from front to back)
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Just how cosmopolitan the town was is clear from the fact that two different races are found buried in the graves: the dolichocephalic Eurafrican, and the brachycephalic Proto-Mediterranean.
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Also a subject of extensive investigation was the cephalic index, a measurement of the general shape of the skull, defined as the ratio of its breadth to its length multiplied by one hundred to eliminate the decimal point. Ratios below seventy-five indicated skulls that were long and narrow, termed “dolichocephalic”; those between seventy-five and eight, slightly broader or “mesocephalic”; and even rounder heads with ratios above eighty were called “brachycephalic.”
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