单词 | prognathic |
释义 | prognathicadj. Physical Anthropology. Having projecting or forward-pointing jaws or lower jaw, prognathous; (of jaws or a jaw) protruding. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > jaws > [adjective] > conditions or positions of > having underhung1683 thick-jawed1689 underjawed1772 jimber-jawed1834 prognathous1836 wapper-jawed1848 prognathic1850 orthognathic1851 orthognathous1851 whopper-jawed1860 macrognathous1864 underhanging1865 macrognathic1874 eurygnathous1878 mesognathous1878 overshot1879 prosognathous1890 mesognathic1892 jut-jawed1943 1850 R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man Introd. 6 When the insertion of the teeth is perpendicular, or nearly perpendicular to the base of the nose, the skull is orthognathic; when projecting forwards, prognathic. 1861 Busk in Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 1 343 It is to him [sc. Professor Retzius] that we owe the terms brachycephalic and dolichocephalic, with their respective modifications of orthognathic and prognathic. 1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Aug. 455 The head small and distinctly dolichocephalic, the jaws prognathic. 1967 J. R. Napier & P. H. Napier Handbk. Living Primates i. 16 In the gelada baboons..the face is moderately prognathic..but the nose is short and retroussé. 1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) lxix. 383 He looked down at her squarish, slightly prognathic face, her dark-brown silky hair cut short in a fringe across her broad forehead. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1850 |
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