platymeric

English

Etymology

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Adjective

platymeric (not comparable)

1. Having a broad femur
   • 2015 December 18, “A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     In terms of the platymeric index, a Kruskal-Wallis test revealed significant differences among sample medians (p0.040): post hoc comparisons revealed significant differences between MPHO and NEAN (p0.016), and NEAN and EULU (p0.014) (Fig 2F).

Derived terms

• platymeric index