The cephalic index or cranial index is the ratio of the maximum width of the head of an organism (human or animal) multiplied by 100 divided by its maximum length (i.e., in the horizontal plane, or front to back). The index is also used to categorize animals, especially dogs and cats. ==Use in human anthropology (Historic)== ...
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(from the article `Retzius, Anders Adolf`) A professor of anatomy and physiology at the Karolinska Medic-Kirurgiska Institutet, Stockholm (1824–60), he invented (1842) the cranial, or ...
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The ratio of the maximal breadth to the maximal length of the head, obtained by the formula: (breadth × 100)/length. ... Synonym: length-breadth index. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. the ratio of the maximal breadth to the maximal length of the head, obtained by the formula: (breadth ׀ 100)/length. Synonyms: length-breadth index
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The cephalic index is a number indicating the ratio of the breadth to the length of the human head. Introduced by Anders Retzius about 1842, the term cephalic index is often applied to the un-fleshed skull, whose measurement should properly be called the crainal index, the skull-ratio being approximately two units lower than the head-ratio. The bre...
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n] - ratio (in percent) of the maximum breadth to the maximum length of a skull
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breadth index noun ratio (in percent) of the maximum breadth to the maximum length of a skull
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the ratio of the greatest breadth of the head to its greatest length from front to back, multiplied by 100.
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