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Definition of Cephalic index
1. Noun. Ratio (in percent) of the maximum breadth to the maximum length of a skull.
Medical Definition of Cephalic index
1. The ratio of the maximal breadth to the maximal length of the head, obtained by the formula: (breadth × 100)/length. Synonym: length-breadth index. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cephalic Index
Literary usage of Cephalic index
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"(1) The cephalic index, when used to test any theory of heredity, ... Further,
although the cephalic index requires a more trained hand to measure it than ..."
2. The Races of Europe: A Sociological Study (Lowell Institute Lectures) by William Zebina Ripley (1899)
"WHILE the cephalic index is generally recognised to-day by all authorities as
the mainstay of ... Europe fully vindicates the cephalic index in ever}' way, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"(1) THE cephalic index, when used to test any theory of heredity, ... Further,
although the cephalic index requires a more trained hand to measure it than ..."
4. The Mediterranean Race: A Study of the Origin of European Peoples by Giuseppe Sergi (1901)
"1387, male, cephalic index 69.2, facial index 45, nasal index 62. It will be seen
that this is a very narrow skull, with a short face, ..."
5. Experimental Sociology. Descriptive and Analytical: Delinquents by Frances Kellor (1901)
"The first includes measurements of cephalic index, distances between ...
cephalic index. — This is the ratio obtained by measurements of length and width of ..."
6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"A, the figures on the right, represents a dolichocephalic skull of length 204
mm., breadth 143 intn., or cephalic index of 70-1. In this skull the orbital ..."
7. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"... cephalic index—Face—Eyes—Nose and nasal index in the living subject—Lips—
Trunk and Limbs: The Skeleton—Pelvis and its indices—Shoulder blade—Thoracic ..."
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