How To Use Prognathous In A Sentence
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This malignant and terrible contortion, combined with the low forehead, blunt nose, and prognathous jaw gave the dead man a singularly simious and ape-like appearance, which was increased by his writhing, unnatural posture.
A Study in Scarlet
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Does this mean that neither Bowen's prognathous jaw, nor his unmasticated prose, will dis-grace our screens in the future?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Sections of orthognathous (light contour) and prognathous (dark contour) skulls, one-third of the natural size.
Essays
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The facial part of the skull with a facial angle up to 82 is called prognathous; with an angle of 83 to
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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But it is singular to remark that, in another respect, the prognathous skulls are less ape-like than the orthognathous, the cerebral cavity projecting decidedly more beyond the anterior end of the axis in the prognathous, than in the orthognathous, skulls.
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It appears, at once, from these views, that the prognathous skulls, so far as their jaws are concerned, do really differ from the orthognathous in much the same way as, though to a far less degree than, the skulls of the lower mammals differ from those of
Essays
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'You filthy clodpole!' he said, rising from his place and thrusting a prognathous jaw and blazing eyes half-way across the table.
VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea
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Enlarged as though in a magnifying mirror, the abundant follicles sprout gut-string stubble as a gentle sleeping smile winks above the prognathous jaw.
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The diagrams in Figure 29 are reduced from very carefully made diagrams of sections of four skulls, two round and orthognathous, two long and prognathous, taken longitudinally and vertically, through the middle.
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Her entire face stood out prominently, almost prognathously, an atavism that hinted of something deeply primitive in her.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The Australian skull belongs to that variety called the prognathous, or narrow elongated variety; yet it is not so striking an example of this variety as the Negro skull.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country
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But it is singular to remark that, in another respect, the prognathous skulls are less ape-like than the orthognathous, the cerebral cavity projecting decidedly more beyond the anterior end of the axis in the prognathous, than in the orthognathous, skulls.
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Southern Asia to Hindostan, would give us a sort of equator, around which round-headed, oval-headed, and oblong-headed, prognathous and orthognathous, fair and dark races — but none possessing the excessively marked characters of Calmuck or Negro — group themselves.
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In order to discover the necessary area, Nature had given him an enormous prognathous jaw.
The Mad God
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Southern Asia to Hindostan, would give us a sort of equator, around which round-headed, oval-headed, and oblong-headed, prognathous and orthognathous, fair and dark races — but none possessing the excessively marked characters of Calmuck or Negro — group themselves.
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The prognathous jaw became a sign of lower development and of a closer relationship to primitive man.
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Thus John Beddoe, who later became the President of the Anthropological Institute (1889-1891), wrote in his Races of Britain (1862) that all men of genius were orthognathous (less prominent jaw bones) while the Irish and the Welsh were prognathous and that the Celt was closely related to Cromagnon man, who, in turn, was linked, according to Beddoe, to the “Africanoid”.
Who’s White: Debriefing
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Smith is an ape-like man with “an enormous prognathous jaw,” large yellow teeth, and eyes that are also yellow and muddy.
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
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Although the head is worn, a detail shows that the lower part of the face extends down to the trachea at the base of the neck; this roughened area, too massive to be simply a prognathous jaw, must instead represent a full beard.
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Her entire face stood out prominently, almost prognathously, an atavism that hinted of something deeply primitive in her.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Exceedingly tall and gaunt with a long, prognathous jaw, he never took his eyes from me as he went over to an accordion wilted across a stool.
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This malignant and terrible contortion, combined with the low forehead, blunt nose, and prognathous jaw, gave the dead man a singularly simious and ape-like appearance, which was increased by. his writhing, unnatural posture.
A Study in Scarlet
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At the southern and western end of that line there live the most dolichocephalic, prognathous, curly-haired, dark-skinned of men — the true Negroes.
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If your business is big, you get behind him and find a prognathous Westphalian with a retreating brow and the manners of a hog.
[them] out of the closet
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Her entire face stood out prominently, almost prognathously, an atavism that hinted of something deeply primitive in her.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The rough hand of the New World had been laid upon the Scotsman from his boyhood; but sterling honesty was written in every line of his bitter-seamed face, while a prognathous jaw proclaimed to the onlooker that honesty was the best policy, -- for the onlooker at any rate, should he wish to do business with the owner of the jaw.
CHAPTER 6
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In the former case the skull is said to be 'orthognathous' or straight-jawed; in the latter, it is called 'prognathous,' a term which has been rendered, with more force than elegance, by the Saxon equivalent, -- 'snouty.'
On Some Fossil Remains of Man
