mesocephal
(mɛsəʊˈsɛfəl, miːzəʊ-)
[f. mesocephali n. pl.]
One who has a mesocephalic skull.
1900 [see dolichocephal]. 1901 [see brachycephal]. 1935 Huxley & Haddon We Europeans vi. 185 In South Arabia..they [sc. the Jews] are preponderantly dolicocephals, and in North Africa dolicocephals or low mesocephals. 1957 C. G. Seligman Races Afr. (ed. 3) iv. 78 They are essentially mesocephals, perhaps reaching the lower grades of brachycephaly. |