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Meaning of "orthocephalic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ORTHOCEPHALIC

orthocephalic  [ˌɔːθəʊsɪˈfælɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORTHOCEPHALIC

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

WHAT DOES ORTHOCEPHALIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of orthocephalic in the English dictionary

The definition of orthocephalic in the dictionary is having a skull whose breadth is between 70 and 75 per cent of its length.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ORTHOCEPHALIC


brachiocephalic
ˌbreɪkɪəsɪˈfælɪk
brachycephalic
ˌbrækɪsɪˈfælɪk
cephalic
sɪˈfælɪk
diencephalic
ˌdaɪensɪˈfælɪk
dolichocephalic
ˌdɒlɪkəʊsɪˈfælɪk
encephalic
ˌɛnsɪˈfælɪk
ithyphallic
ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk
leptocephalic
ˌlɛptəʊsɪˈfælɪk
macrocephalic
ˌmækrəʊsɪˈfælɪk
megacephalic
ˌmɛɡəsɪˈfælɪk
mesencephalic
ˌmɛsɛnsɪˈfælɪk
mesocephalic
ˌmɛsəʊsɪˈfælɪk
metencephalic
ˌmɛtɛnsɪˈfælɪk
microcephalic
ˌmaɪkrəʊsɪˈfælɪk
oxycephalic
ˌɒksɪsɪˈfælɪk
platycephalic
ˌplætɪsɪˈfælɪk
procephalic
ˌprəʊsɪˈfælɪk
prosencephalic
ˌprɒsɛnsɪˈfælɪk
rhinencephalic
ˌraɪnɛnsɪˈfælɪk
telencephalic
ˌtɛlɛnsɪˈfælɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ORTHOCEPHALIC

orthoaxis
orthoborate
orthoboric acid
orthocaine
orthocenter
orthocentre
orthocephalous
orthocephaly
orthochromatic
orthochromatism
orthoclase
orthocousins
orthodiagonal
orthodontia
orthodontic
orthodontically
orthodontics
orthodontist
orthodox

WORDS THAT END LIKE ORTHOCEPHALIC

acephalic
anencephalic
Daedalic
epencephalic
hydrocephalic
italic
malic
megalocephalic
mesaticephalic
myelencephalic
naphthalic
omphalic
pachalic
pashalic
salic
scaphocephalic
terephthalic
thalamencephalic
Uralic
zoocephalic

Synonyms and antonyms of orthocephalic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «orthocephalic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ORTHOCEPHALIC

Find out the translation of orthocephalic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of orthocephalic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «orthocephalic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

orthocephalic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ortocefálicos
570 millions of speakers

English

orthocephalic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

orthocephalic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

orthocephalic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

orthocephalic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

orthocephalic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

orthocephalic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

orthocephalic
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ortocephalic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

orthocephalic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

orthocephalic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

orthocephalic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Orthocephalic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

orthocephalic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

orthocephalic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑर्थोसेफेलिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

orthokephal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

orthocephalic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

orthocephalic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

orthocephalic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

orthocephalic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

orthocephalic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

orthocephalic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

orthocephalic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

orthocephalic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of orthocephalic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ORTHOCEPHALIC»

The term «orthocephalic» is used very little and occupies the 157.040 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ORTHOCEPHALIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORTHOCEPHALIC»

Discover the use of orthocephalic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to orthocephalic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
8 is 67-8 in. high ; is orthocephalic (076) and has an ordinary pelvis. Mean 0.77 ( or sub-brachycephalic). Of the females : No. 2 is 61 in. high ; is sub- brachycephalic (0'78) and has an aberrant pelvis. No. 1 is 58-9 in. high ; is mecocephalic ...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1870
2
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
" Of the males : Cephalic index. No. 7 is (?) in. high ; is sub-brachycephalic (078) and has an ordinary pelvis. No. 8 is 67-8 in. high ; is orthocephalic (076) and has an ordinary pelvis. Mean 0.77 (or sub-brachycephalic). Of the females : No.
‎1870
3
Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF CRANIA. 35 10.250 (posterior part of cranium). 10.266, female (frontal bone). 10.271, female (frontal bone). 10.272, female ( fragments). 11.249, male; length-breadth index 70.74, dolieh0-, orthocephalic, ...
‎1915
4
Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences
1629, male; length-breadth index 72.73, dolicho-, orthocephalic, mesoprosopic, mesorrhine, mesoconch, mcsostaphyline. 1630, male; length-breadth index 77.05, meso-, orthocephalic, hyperchamaeprosopic, mesorrhine, hypsiconch, 2230, ...
‎1915
5
Arch?ological Explorations in Tennessee
... the short headed nations, they were, by intermixture with a long headed people , often of the orthocephalic type, though individual variation would also cause many heads of a purely brachycephalie nation to pass into the orthocephalic.
F.W. Putnam
6
Prehistoric Races of the United States
They are intermediate, or Orthocephalic, as will be apparent from the following figures, reduced to one-fourth the natural size : FIG. 68. FIG. 69. Fig. 68 is a vertical view of the skull represented in Fig. 60, and Fig. 69 of that represented in Fig.
J. W. Foster, 2005
7
Prehistoric America
He found no dolichocephalic skull, but five were orthocephalic, eight brachycephalic, and eight artificially deformed (fig. 210). In Missouri two categories of skulls have been authenticated, differing as much from each other as do those, ...
Marquis de Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget marquis de Nadaillac, William Healey Dall, 1884
8
Prehistoric Research in Northwest Punjab Anthropogical ...
Cephalic Length-Height Index This is divided as follows : Only a third of the series examined is in the hypsicephalic group; the incidence of chamaecephaly is low; more than half the series is orthocephalic. min. = 57,4; max. = 70,5; mean = 61 ...
9
The Wandering Cainidae; Or, The Ancient Nomads
claim that dolichocephalous Man is the primitive stock, the anthropopithecus. Granting this, how are we to explain these three types of skulls. This the dolichocephalic, this the orthocephalic, and this the brachycephalic. Now, I think one of the ...
Matthew Kempf, 1879
10
Proceedings
1) was orthocephalic, his cephalic index being '74 > » » '8 -77 „ „ -756 ,i „ IV n n '4 E E '* ii I, "73 ii ii '* ii ii ... and the remaining five orthocephalic, the degree of long- headedness termed orthocephaly greatly preponderating: in connexion with ...
Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India), Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1876

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