Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An instrument or device used to measure the skull.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An instrument for measuring the dimensions of the skull.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an instrument for measuring skull sizes
Etymologies
- cranio- + -meter (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I at first thought of taking the length of the skull by a craniometer, and seeing what portion of the total length to the posterior edge of the sacrum it would be, but I soon discarded the idea on account of the variation in the supra-occipital process.”
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