dolichocephalic, a. Ethnol.
(ˌdɒlɪkəʊsɪˈfælɪk)
Also dolikho-kephalic.
[f. Gr. δολιχός long + κεϕαλή head: cf. κεϕαλικός pertaining to the head.]
Long-headed: applied to skulls of which the breadth is less than four-fifths (or, according to Broca, three-fourths) of the length; also (less commonly) to human populations having such skulls: opposed to brachycephalic.
| 1849–52 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1325/2 The first of these skulls would certainly be placed..in the ‘dolichocephalic’ division of Professor Retzius. 1861 Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon i. v. 32 The features are regular, the head dolikhokephalic. 1866 Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 84 Skulls..with the cephalic index less than 0·8 are Dolichocephalic. 1878 Lubbock Preh. Times v. 142 If we class those skulls in which the relation of the breadth to the length is less than 73 to 100 as long heads, or Dolichocephalic, those in which it is from 74–79 to 100 as medium heads. 1879 tr. De Quatrefages' Hum. Species 164 Tribes which were tall and dolichocephalic. |
So dolichoˈcephali n. pl. [mod.L.], men with dolichocephalic skulls. dolichoˈcephalism, the condition or quality of being dolichocephalic. dolichoˈcephalous a. = dolichocephalic. dolichoˈcephaly = dolichocephalism.
| 1851 D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. ix. 281 [He] classes the Celts among dolichocephali. 1864 Reader 17 Dec. 771/1 Skull..highly dolichocephalous and prognathous. 1865 Thurnam Brit. & Gaul. Skulls in Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 477 (L.) If dolichocephalism and brachycephalism have ever, as characters, a race-value, they have it in this instance. 1866 Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 112 Brachycephaly diminishing and dolichocephaly increasing with the latitude. 1871 Darwin Desc. Man I. iv. 148 Welcker finds that short men incline more to brachycephaly, and tall men to dolichocephaly. 1880 Nature XXI. 224 Dolichocephalism and prognathism..prevail. 1881 Ibid. XXIII. 221 The Australians..are usually represented as black, straight-haired, dolichocephalous. |