brachycephalic

• As Louis squinted he realized that the figure's head was not shaven but simply hairless—he could see veins through the translucent flesh—and the skull was dis­turbingly broad, brachycephalic, and so out of proportion with the body that the sight of it made him think of pho­tographs of embryos and fetuses. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
• The head is huge and misshapen, brachycephalic, reminiscent of photographs of fetuses. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
• However this may be, it is quite certain, that as no man can by taking thought add a cubit to his stature, so no man can by taking thought make his skull brachycephalic or dolichocephalic. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• As for southern Europeans, have you not observed that nearly all of them possess brachycephalic skulls, indicating the influence upon them of Mongolian invasions thousands of years ago and supplying, perhaps, a very substantial argument that, if we find the faintly Mongoloid type of emigrant repugnant to us, we can never expect to assimilate the pure-bred Mongol What do you mean, 'brachycephalic'?" —  The Pride of Palomar
• The remains of these aboriginal inhabitants are marked in France, even in sparsely tenanted districts like the Auvergne Plateau, which is now occupied by the broad-headed Alpine race; and they are found to underlie, in point of time, other brachycephalic areas, like the Po Valley, Bavaria and Russia. —  Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography

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