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Cephalic Index

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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The term in use by anthropologists to express the percentage of breadth to length in any skull. The principle employed by Retzius is to take the longer diameter of a skull, the antero-posterior diameter, as ioo; if the shorter or transverse diameter falls below 80 the skull may be classed as long (dolichocephalic), while if it exceeds 80 the skull is broad (brachycephalic) (see Craniometry).

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cephalic Index'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/cephalic-index.html. 1910.
 
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