having a short head, spec. in Physical Anthropology brachycephalic; hence short-headedness.

Having a narrow, pointed, or tapering shape, or composed of parts having such a shape; spec. (a) Anatomy †designating a styloid process (obsolete…

Small-headed; (Medicine and Physical Anthropology) having an abnormally small head; characterized by microcephaly; microcephalic.

Having a flat or broad head.

Physical Anthropology. Designating a race or type of man characterized by a skull of rounded shape. Frequently contrasted with long-headed (cf. long…

literal. Short-headed: used in Ethnology to denote skulls of which the breadth is at least four-fifths of the length: opposed to dolichocephalic, adj.

Long-headed: applied to skulls of which the breadth is less than four-fifths (or, according to Broca, three-fourths) of the length; also (less…

Of a skull: having a relatively or abnormally large ratio of height to breadth. Also: having such a skull.

= macrocephalic, adj.

Medicine and Physical Anthropology. Characterized by or relating to microcephaly.

Having a skull long and narrow, and, as viewed from above, somewhat boat-shaped.

= macrocephalic, adj. Now rare.

Having a flat or broad head. Also Craniometry: (of a skull) broad or flattened at the top.

Of a head or skull: unusually long (now rare, perhaps obsolete); disproportionately or abnormally large. Of a person or animal: having an…

Designating or having a skull with prominent zygomatic arches (visible esp. when viewed from above). Cf. cryptozygous adj. at crypto-, comb._form…

= dolichocephalic, adj.

pertaining to skulls of similar form and structure.

In T. H. Huxley's terminology: designating a skull with a cephalic index in the lowest numerical range; extremely dolichocephalic.

= dolichocephalic, adj.

Physical Anthropology and Zoology. Having or designating a skull with an intermediate cranial index (width to height ratio); not dolichocephalic or…

Originally: †designating a skull with an intermediate cephalic index; intermediate between brachycephalic and dolichocephalic; = mesocephalic, adj.…

(of a skull) characterized by abnormal or excessive narrowness.

designating a skull whose zygomatic arches cannot be seen when it is viewed from above; (also) designating the zygomatic arches of this type of…

= macrocephalic, adj. Also in extended use. Cf. megalocephaly, n.

Having the cheek-bones invisible when the skull is viewed from above.

= main sense.

= orthocephalic, adj.

Designating or having a skull of intermediate length; = mesocephalic, adj. 2. Cf. brachycephalic, adj., dolichocephalic, adj.

Medicine and Physical Anthropology. Designating or characterized by an oblique deformity of the skull (plagiocephaly).

Physical Anthropology. Having or designating a skull with a broad, flattened, sloping forehead. Obsolete. rare.

Mesaticephalic, mesocephalic.

Designating or having a nose of moderate breadth (intermediate between leptorrhine and platyrrhine).

Physical Anthropology. Of a person or skull: having the nose or the nasal bones flat or broad; spec. having a nasal index above a particular value…

having a head of cylindrical or elongated shape.

literal. Broad-headed; applied to a subdivision of the brachycephalic or short broad-skulled races of humankind.

characterized by the presence of a high and narrow skull.

Of the orbit of a person's eye: having a large orbital index, spec. having an orbital index greater than 89. Of a person, a person's skull, etc…

Having an intermediate orbital index (ratio of orbital height to width); between microseme and megaseme.

Designating or having a low orbital index (spec. less than 83).

Having or designating a skull or head of abnormally pointed or conical shape; affected by oxycephaly. Also as n.: a person with oxycephaly.

(of a skull) combining the oxycephalic and klinocephalic forms.

Having a flattened base of the skull; exhibiting invagination of the area around the foramen magnum.

Designating an abnormally or unusually high skull; oxycephalic.

Of the nature of, or having, a low flattened skull.

= macrocephalic, adj.

= mesoconch, adj.

characterized by chamæprosopy.

having a narrow skull; exhibiting leptocephaly; Ichthyology, as the designation of certain flatfish (cf. leptocephalid n.).

= mesorrhine, adj.

Having a long head. Of a person: dolichocephalic.

= scaphocephalic adj. at scaphocephalus, n. derivatives.

= mecistocephalic, adj.

= macrocephalic, adj.

= plagiocephalic, adj.

= mesocephalic, adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

(See quot. 1894.)

having a short cranium or head.

characterized by or exhibiting chamæcephaly.

characterized by or exhibiting chamæconchy.

characterized by having a low skull, of a length-height index of 70 and less.

having a long skull; macrocephalic.

relating to or having a broad skull.

= stenocephalic.

Of a skull: having an intermediate orbital index (ratio of height to width of the eye socket).

= mesoconch, adj.

Descriptive of racial, particularly cranial, features associated with the early Lapp peoples.