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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The scientific measurement of the bones of the cranium and the face, used especially in the assessment of facial growth.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Measurement of the head or skull; craniometry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anthropometry) The measurement of the heads of living persons.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The measurement of the skull, especially in order to study its growth and development

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun measurement of human heads

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