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PRONUNCIATION OF DOLICHOCEPHALOUS

dolichocephalous  [ˌdɒlɪkəʊˈsɛfələs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOLICHOCEPHALOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dolichocephalous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DOLICHOCEPHALOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dolichocephalous

Cephalic index

The cephalic index or cranial index is the ratio of the maximum width of the head of an organism multiplied by 100 divided by its maximum length. Cephalic index The index was widely used by anthropologists in the early 20th century to categorize human populations, and by Carleton S. Coon in the 1960s. Today it is mainly used to describe individuals' appearances and for estimating the age of fetuses for legal and obstetrical reasons. The index is also used to categorize animals, especially dogs and cats.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DOLICHOCEPHALOUS


acephalous
əˈsɛfələs
androcephalous
ˌændrəʊˈsɛfələs
autocephalous
ˌɔːtəʊˈsɛfələs
bicephalous
baɪˈsɛfələs
brachycephalous
ˌbrækɪˈsɛfələs
Bucephalus
bjuːˈsɛfələs
dicephalous
daɪˈsɛfələs
encephalous
ɛnˈsɛfələs
hydrocephalus
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈsɛfələs
leptocephalous
ˌlɛptəʊˈsɛfələs
leptocephalus
ˌlɛptəʊˈsɛfələs
mesaticephalous
ˌmɛsətɪˈsɛfələs
mesocephalous
ˌmɛsəʊˈsɛfələs
microcephalous
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈsɛfələs
orthocephalous
ˌɔːθəʊˈsɛfələs
oxycephalous
ˌɒksɪˈsɛfələs
platycephalous
ˌplætɪˈsɛfələs
rhizocephalous
ˌraɪzəʊˈsɛfələs
scaphocephalous
ˌskæfəʊˈsɛfələs
stegocephalous
ˌstɛɡəʊˈsɛfələs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOLICHOCEPHALOUS

dolente
dolerite
doleritic
dolesome
dolesomely
Dolgellau
Dolgelley
dolichocephal
dolichocephalic
dolichocephalism
dolichocephaly
dolichos
dolichosaurus
dolichurus
Dolin
dolina
doline
dolium
doll
doll carriage

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOLICHOCEPHALOUS

anomalous
antipetalous
antisepalous
apetalous
bipetalous
dialypetalous
dipetalous
disepalous
episepalous
jealous
macrocephalous
monopetalous
monosepalous
octopetalous
overzealous
ridiculous
scandalous
synsepalous
tripetalous
unzealous
zealous

Synonyms and antonyms of dolichocephalous in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dolichocephalous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DOLICHOCEPHALOUS

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Translator English - Chinese

dolichocephalous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dolicocéfalos
570 millions of speakers

English

dolichocephalous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dolichocephalous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

طويل الرأس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

dolichocephalous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dolichocephalous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dolichocephalous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dolichocéphale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dolichocephalous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dolichocephalous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

dolichocephalous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dolichocephalous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dolichocephalous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dolichocephalous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dolichocephalous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डोलिशिओसेफायल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dolichocephalous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dolicocefalia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dolichocephalous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

dolichocephalous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dolicocefal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δολιχοκεφαλία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dolichocephalous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dolichocephalous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dolichocephalous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dolichocephalous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DOLICHOCEPHALOUS»

The term «dolichocephalous» is used very little and occupies the 176.799 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DOLICHOCEPHALOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dolichocephalous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOLICHOCEPHALOUS»

Discover the use of dolichocephalous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dolichocephalous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Edinburgh Medical Journal
sichtslagen," published at Berlin in 1869. In this work Hecker clearly shows that a great majority of children born with the face presenting have the dolichocephalous form ; the height of the skull is small, it is prominent posteriorly, and has ...
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Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London: ...
The table of measurements shows an average relative breadth such as might have been expected, with a mixture of skulls of dolichocephalous and brachycephalous proportions in the same series. The cephalic index stands at ' 78 for the ...
Anthropological Society of London, 1865
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The Anthropological Review
On the small island of Minglay, south of Barra, the dolichocephalous Celt, mixed in different degrees with the Scandinavian, is the most prominent. In the islands of Barra and Uist, the race is principally a mixture of dolichocephalous and ...
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Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London
The table of measurements shows an average relative breadth such as might have been expected, with a mixture of skulls of dolichocephalous and brachycephalous proportions in the same series. The cephalic index stands at ' 78 for the ...
Anthropological Society of London, 1865
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Memoirs read before the Anthropological Society of London
The table of measurements shows an average relative breadth such as might have been expected, with a mixture of skulls of dolichocephalous and brachycephalous proportions in the same series. The cephalic index stands at " 78 for the ...
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Anthropological review
On the small island of Minglay, south of Barra, the dolichocephalous Celt, mixed in different degrees with the Scandinavian, is the most prominent. In the islands of Barra and Uist, the race is principally a mixture of dolichocephalous and ...
7
Magic Songs of the West Finns: The Pre and Proto Historic ...
The Čeremis being dolichocephalous, in the wider senseof the term, havenaturally a low vertical index, whichagrees nearly withthatofthepurely dolichocephalous Letts and Russians (TableIII. ll. 9, 11), butis stillfar removedfrom the ...
John Abercromby, 2013
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The Human Race
The term dolichocephalous (fromthe Greek δολιχος, long, κεφαλη, head,) is applied to a cranium which is elongated from front to rear, or, to express the idea numerically, the cranium whose longitudinal diameterbearstoits vertical diameterthe ...
Louis Figuier, 2014
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Popular Science
This skull is dolichocephalous — that is, having a length greater than its breadth. "With the Canstadt skull he classes those of Enghisheim, Brux, Neanderthal, La Denise, Staengenaes, Olmo, and Clichy — the last-named three being the skulls  ...
10
Archaeological Discoveries of Ancient America
An illustration of the period portrays a native woman with a dolichocephalous cranium. She is holding a child in a deformation cradle on her lap. Curiously, she appears to have unusually small feet, possibly bound when she was an infant, ...
Frank Joseph, 2013

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