dolichocephalic

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This distinction had formed the foundation for a more scientific classification into brachycephalic, dolichocephalic, and mesocephalic skulls.

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  1. adjective Having a relatively long head with a cephalic index below 76.

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  • Not black, sharp-nosed, the Dravidian type, dolichocephalic, but round-featured. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • China are taller than the Magogites, have lighter skins and are fairly dolichocephalic. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Anthropologists generally speak of any one with an index of 75 (or where the breadth is 75\% of the length) and below this as dolichocephalic, or long-headed; from 75 to 80 is the class of the mesocephalic, intermediates; while above 80 is that of the subbrachycephalic and brachycephalic, or round-headed. —  Applied Eugenics
  • The dolichocephalic (long-skulled) blonde whom he celebrated was not exactly the one whom we are now judging by his works, but at least he proclaimed the superiority of the German race His doctrine was the centre around which were gathered a complete ensemble of dogmas and of very diverse theories, whose connected thread it is not easy to discover when it is searched for logically, but appears quite distinctly when not reason, but reasons, are demanded. —  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915
  • This distinction had formed the foundation for a more scientific classification into brachycephalic, dolichocephalic, and mesocephalic skulls. —  Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
 

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  1. Greek dolikhos, long; see del-1 in Indo-European roots + -cephalic.

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  1. As dolichocephal-ous + -ic.
 

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/dɑlɪkəˈsɛfəlɪk/
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