brevilineal

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brevilineal (comparative more brevilineal, superlative most brevilineal)

  1. Short and stocky.
    • 1969, Carlo Sirtori, Fondazione Carlo Erba, Medicine, Biology, and Surgery at the Carlo Erba Foundation, page 589:
      The study of biotype also led to interesting conclusions: 53 patients were normolineal, 28 longilineal and only 19 brevilineal; actually , some represented an intermediate type , to which White has called attention: athletic, muscular, overweight subjects, whome Sheldon classified as endomorph-mesomorphs, that is brevilineal tending to normolineal.
    • 2013, Yolanda Eraso, Representing Argentinian Mothers, page 71:
      The three basic body types marked different fertility types: brevilineal was cast as the most fertile woman at the top of the scale, longuilineal at the bottom, with the normal types in the middle.
    • 2018, Pierre Philippe Baldeyrou, Amir Hanna, Nicusor Adrian Crutu, Normal and Pathological Bronchial Semiology: A Visual Approach, page 15:
      This is more prominent in brevilineal individuals, and thus the origin of the left lower lobe (LLL) bronchus is accessible in rigid bronchoscopy only by using small tubes.
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