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CEPHALIC INDEX
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ratio (in percent) of the maximum breadth to the maximum length of a skull
Synonyms:
breadth index; cephalic index; cranial index
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("cephalic index" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))