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Definition of Breadth index
1. Noun. Ratio (in percent) of the maximum breadth to the maximum length of a skull.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breadth Index
Literary usage of Breadth index
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Retzius sought to determine these shapes mathematically by the length-breadth
index. He combined the groups of dolichocephalic and brachycephalic crania ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"Measured in this situation, the breadth of the cranium is 118 mm., which gives
a length-breadth index 60.51, and thus represents ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"The length of the cranial cavity is 118 mm. and the breadth 96 mm., and the
length-breadth index is thus the brachycephalic one of 81.36. ..."
4. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"Skulls with a breadth- index above 80 are brachycephalic, ... It is subject to
less variation than the breadth- index ; in some cases, especially in ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1900)
"Three males gave a mean length- breadth index 69'9, whilst the length-height
index was ... In a female skull, however, the length-breadth index was 77'7. ..."
6. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"Fig. 327.—Epileptic idiocy. Fig. 328 —Imbecile, with extreme dolichocephaly.
(Length-breadth index, 51.) Fig. 329,—Hémiplégie idiocy. ..."
7. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"In twenty seven male brachycephalic Scottish skulls the mean length-breadth index
was 83'2, almost the same as that of the Burmese. ..."
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