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MESOCEPHALIC

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 179 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MESOCEPHALIC , a See also:

term applied by anthropologists to those skulls which exhibit a cephalic See also:index intermediate between the See also:dolichocephalic and See also:brachycephalic crania (see See also:CRANIOMETRY). Taking the longer See also:diameter of a See also:skull, i.e. the one from front to back, as too, mesocephalic skulls are those of which the trans-See also:verse diameter varies between 75 to 80.

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