NOUN
- an adult with a long narrow head
ADJECTIVE
- having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75
How To Use dolichocephalic In A Sentence
- Also evident was postorbital constriction, plus the dolichocephalic (long and narrow) nature of the brain case.
- The Athenian leader was a bit of a slaphead with a dolichocephalic skull; but instead of going around enduring the jeers of the ancient tabloid media, he had a very cool solution.
- I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
- The head index is generally mesaticephalic, but three are dolichocephalic and two brachycephalic, the amount of variation being surprising. The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon
- # Native races of South American = = small stature, nose projecting and straight, mesocephalic or dolichocephalic. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- Besides the general division of skulls into dolichocephalic, brachycephalic, and mesocephalic, other divisions had been undertaken, according to the height of the skull, and again according to the maxillary and the facial angles. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
- Of the twenty-nine women twelve are brachycephalic; twelve are mesaticephalic; and five are dolichocephalic. The Bontoc Igorot
- The former is called brachycephalic (short-headed), and the latter dolichocephalic Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
- Modern Nordics are typically mesocephalic, but their ancestors were dolichocephalic, long skulled, i.e. having a cephalic index less than 77.1), while Keltics are more usually mesocephalic.
- 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