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DOLICHOCEPHALIC (long-headed)

DOLICHOCEPHALIC (See also:
LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )
long-headed) , a See also:

TERM

term invented by Andreas Retzius to denote (as opposed to " See also:

BRACHYCEPHALIC (Gr. for short-headed)

brachycephalic ") those skulls the See also:

DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

diameter of which from See also:

side to side, or the transverse diameter, is small in comparison with the See also:

LONGITUDINAL

longitudinal diameter or that from front to back. Retzius, though inventing the term, did not define it precisely. See also:

Paul See also:

BROCA, PAUL (1824-188o)

Broca applied it to skulls having a cephalic See also:

INDEX

index of seventy-five and under, and this limit is generally adopted. Dolichocephaly, according to Retzius, was the distinctive See also:

CRANIAL

cranial feature of the earliest inhabitants of See also:

EUROPE

Europe. To-See also:

day it is characteristic of the See also:

NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

negro races, of the See also:

PAPUANS (Malay pap4wah or puwah-puwah, " frizzled," " woolly-haired," in reference to their characteristic hair-dressing)

Papuans, the Polynesians and the Australians, though among the See also:

NEGRITOS (Span. for " little negroes ")

negritos and some of the pigmy races of See also:

Africa brachycephalic skulls are the See also:

RULE

rule. Of the yellow races the See also:

ESKIMO, ESKIMOS

Eskimo is the most dolichocephalic. Of See also:

white races the See also:

ARABS

Arabs and See also:

KABYLES, or KABAIL

Kabyles of See also:

Algeria, and the Guanchos of the See also:

Canary Islands, are most notable for dolichocephalic tendency. Dolichocephaly is some-times frontal, as among adult whites, sometimes occipital or confined to the back of the See also:

head, as among inferior negro-races, Australians, Papuans and newly-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born whites.

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