Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anthropology, pertaining to both the glabella and the occiput; as, the glabello-occipital length, the maximum length of the head measured from the glabella to the occiput.
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Examples
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The skull from the cave of Engis — viewed from the right side. ‘a’ glabella, ‘b’ occipital protuberance, (‘a’ to ‘b’ glabello-occipital line), ‘c’ auditory foramen.
Essays 2007
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It is exceedingly depressed, measuring only about 3.4 inches from the glabello-occipital line to the vertex.
Essays 2007
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The occipital region of the skull, also, not unfrequently becomes less prominent; so that it not only fails to project beyond a line drawn perpendicular to the hinder extremity of the glabello-occipital line, but even, in some cases, begins to shelve away from it, forwards, almost immediately.
Essays 2007
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The occipital protuberance occupies the extreme posterior end of the skull, when the glabello-occipital line is made horizontal, and so far from any part of the occipital region extending beyond it, this region of the skull slopes obliquely upward and forward, so that the lambdoidal suture is situated well upon the upper surface of the cranium.
Essays 2007
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The occipital region of the skull, also, not unfrequently becomes less prominent; so that it not only fails to project beyond a line drawn perpendicular to the hinder extremity of the glabello-occipital line, but even, in some cases, begins to shelve away from it, forwards, almost immediately.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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It is exceedingly depressed, measuring only about 3.4 inches from the glabello-occipital line to the vertex.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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It is exceedingly depressed, measuring only about 3.4 inches from the glabello-occipital line to the vertex.
On Some Fossil Remains of Man Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The occipital protuberance occupies the extreme posterior end of the skull, when the glabello-occipital line is made horizontal, and so far from any part of the occipital region extending beyond it, this region of the skull slopes obliquely upward and forward, so that the lambdoidal suture is situated well upon the upper surface of the cranium.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The occipital protuberance occupies the extreme posterior end of the skull, when the glabello-occipital line is made horizontal, and so far from any part of the occipital region extending beyond it, this region of the skull slopes obliquely upward and forward, so that the lambdoidal suture is situated well upon the upper surface of the cranium.
On Some Fossil Remains of Man Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The occipital region of the skull, also, not unfrequently becomes less prominent; so that it not only fails to project beyond a line drawn perpendicular to the hinder extremity of the glabello-occipital line, but even, in some cases, begins to shelve away from it, forwards, almost immediately.
On Some Fossil Remains of Man Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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