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Definition of Pithecoid
1. a. Of or pertaining to the genus Pithecia, or subfamily Pithecinæ, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South American monkeys.
Definition of Pithecoid
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the anthropoid apes ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the monkeys of genus ''Pithecia'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pithecoid
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Medical Definition of Pithecoid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pithecoid
Literary usage of Pithecoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"Its Relation to the pithecoid Theory.—Induction and Deduction.—Proofs of the
Derivation of Man from Apes : Zoological Facts.—Gradual Development of the ..."
2. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1917)
"... but in a higher species, and has no proximation to the "pithecoid man," aa "
Devachan" of course. It has the seeds Haeckel so sweepingly affirms. ..."
3. A Textbook of Nervous Diseases for Students and Practicing Physicians: In by Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen (1921)
"... asymmetry of the skull = oblique skill, plagiocephaly, "pithecoid"=ape-like
formation of the face (see Fig. 95), anomalies of the teeth, hare-lip, ..."
4. Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley (1886)
"And indeed, though truly tho most pithecoid of known human skulls, tho Neanderthal
cranium is by no means so isolated as it appears to be at first, ..."
5. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1873)
"And of the Neanderthal bones, Huxley says : Although the most pithecoid of human
crania yet discovered, yet its large brain capacity would alone suggest ..."
6. The Recapitulation Theory and Human Infancy by Percy Erwin Davidson (1914)
"They may be compared with the many pithecoid vestiges remaining in the human adult
... This is to say, the whole human ontogeny has pithecoid vestiges. ..."
7. Lectures on Man: His Place in Creation, and in the History of the Earth by Karl Christoph Vogt, James Hunt (1864)
"So large a mass of brain as this would alone suggest that the pithecoid tendencies,
indicated by this skull, did not extend deep into the organisation; ..."
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