cranial index

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: the ratio multiplied by 100 of the maximum breadth of the bare skull to its maximum length from front to back

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Boas’s finding, which was that the cranial index of children born in America differed from that of children of the same background born in Europe, rocked the field. — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, "How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity," 19 Aug. 2019

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cranial index

noun

Medical Definition of cranial index

: the ratio multiplied by 100 of the maximum breadth of the bare skull to its maximum length from front to back — compare cephalic index

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