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CEPHALIC INDEX

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 684 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CEPHALIC See also:

INDEX , the See also:term in use by anthropologists to See also:express the percentage of breadth to length in any See also:skull. The principle employed by Retzius is to take the longer See also:diameter of a skull, the antero-posterior diameter, as zoo; if the shorter or transverse diameter falls below 8o the skull may be classed as See also:long (See also:dolichocephalic), while if it exceeds 8o the skull is broad (See also:brachycephalic) (see See also:CRANIOMETRY).

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