dolichocephalic

English

Etymology

From dolicho- +‎ cephalic, hence literally roughly “long-headed”.

Adjective

dolichocephalic (comparative more dolichocephalic, superlative most dolichocephalic)

1. (of a person or animal) Having a head that is long from front to back (relative to its width from left to right).
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 153:

     Just how cosmopolitan the town was is clear from the fact that two different races are found buried in the graves: the dolichocephalic Eurafrican, and the brachycephalic Proto-Mediterranean.

Derived terms

• subdolichocephalic
• ultradolichocephalic

 

Translations

having a head that is long from front to back (relative to its width from left to right)

• Finnish: pitkäkalloinen
• Tagalog: habang-uluhin

Noun

dolichocephalic (plural dolichocephalics)

1. A dolichocephalic person.

Related terms

• dolichocephaly, dolichocephalism, dolichocephalous

References

• William H. Tucker, The Science and Politics of Racial Research,^[1] University of Illinois Press (1996), →ISBN, page 23: Also a subject of extensive investigation was the cephalic index, a measurement of the general shape of the skull, defined as the ratio of its breadth to its length multiplied by one hundred to eliminate the decimal point. Ratios below seventy-five indicated skulls that were long and narrow, termed “dolichocephalic”; those between seventy-five and eighty, slightly broader or “mesocephalic”; and even rounder heads with ratios above eighty were called “brachycephalic.”