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to converge to a common cranial type, as Boas had suggested. The vertical cephalic index, also known as the length-height index, was a less-commonly measured...

protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of three types of bone: cranial bones, facial bones, and ear ossicles. Two parts are more prominent: the...

syndrome Not all cranial abnormalities seen in children with craniosynostosis are solely a consequence of the premature fusion of a cranial suture. This is...

intra-vascular compartment resulting in cerebral oedema and raised intra-cranial pressure. The symptoms resulting from hyponatraemia will depend on both...

consist of glabello-occipital length, nasio-occipital length, basion-nasion length, basion-bregma height, maximum cranial breadth, maximum frontal breadth...

various anthropometrics and personal identity, mental typology, personality, cranial vault and brain size, and other factors. At various times in history, applications...

a database cranial measurements utilizing cephalograms of Garo women living in Bangladesh. Head circumference, head length, facial height from 'nasion'...

in height and weight. The smallest known adult dog was a Yorkshire Terrier that stood only 6.3 cm (2.5 in) at the shoulder, 9.5 cm (3.7 in) in length along...

bypassing an obstacle and crouching. Marsh et al. (2024) describe post-cranial material from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation (Utah, United States)...

1970 found that, measuring cranial length, glabella protrusion, nasion-basion (nose bridge) length, alveolare-basion length, and a number of other traits...

Broca's area, height of the endocast at 25% intervals of the maximum length, and the vault module (mean of maximum length, width, and middle height). Although...

criterion. Morton claimed that he could judge intellectual capacity by cranial capacity. A large skull meant a large brain and high intellectual capacity...

method of classifying ethnic groups. The index is based on the ratio of the breadth of the nose to its height. The nasal dimensions are also used to classify...

have reached approximately 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) in shoulder height and 2.52 m (8 ft 3 in) in length. The large-sized species were therefore amongst the largest...

blood type, genetic diseases, cranial features, facial features, organ systems, eye color, hair color and texture, height and build, and skin color varying...

height of the mandibular body to the length of the tooth row remained largely the same. This differs markedly from Megatherium, in which the height of...

"Sexual dimorphism of Pteranodon and other pterosaurs, with comments on cranial crests". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 12 (4): 422–434. doi:10.1080/02724634...

130 kg (290 lb) and measure about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in length and 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) in shoulder height, whereas D. minor of the early Oligocene was much smaller...

smaller cranial vaults, and shorter skulls. The Cross River gorilla is not known to differ much in terms of body size or limb and bone length from western...

gleno-acetabular length—the distance between the shoulders and pelvis—could have been about 1,125 mm (3 ft 8 in); assuming a hip height of 900 mm (2 ft...