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English
Etymology
From dolicho- + cephalic, hence literally roughly “long-headed”.
Adjective
dolichocephalic (comparative more dolichocephalic, superlative most dolichocephalic)
- (of a person or animal) Having a head that is long from front to back (relative to its width from left to right).
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 153:Just how cosmopolitan the town was is clear from the fact that two different races are found buried in the graves: the dolichocephalic Eurafrican, and the brachycephalic Proto-Mediterranean.
Derived terms
Translations
having a head that is long from front to back (relative to its width from left to right)
Noun
dolichocephalic (plural dolichocephalics)
- A dolichocephalic person.
References
- William H. Tucker, The Science and Politics of Racial Research, University of Illinois Press (1996), →ISBN, page 23: Also a subject of extensive investigation was the cephalic index, a measurement of the general shape of the skull, defined as the ratio of its breadth to its length multiplied by one hundred to eliminate the decimal point. Ratios below seventy-five indicated skulls that were long and narrow, termed “dolichocephalic”; those between seventy-five and eighty, slightly broader or “mesocephalic”; and even rounder heads with ratios above eighty were called “brachycephalic.”