cranial index

Noun

(medicine, anthropology) A measure of the elongation or flatness of a head or skull: the maximum breadth of the skull divided by its maximum length, multiplied by 100.

Japanese Meaning

頭蓋の扁平度や縦横の比率を示す指標。すなわち、頭蓋骨の最大幅を最大長で割った値に100を掛けたもの。 / 医学や人類学で用いられる、頭部または頭蓋骨の形状評価の一手法。

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Researchers calculated the cranial index to compare skull shapes across different populations.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

研究者たちは異なる集団間で頭蓋の形状を比較するために頭蓋指数を算出した。

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(medicine, anthropology) A measure of the elongation or flatness of a head or skull: the maximum breadth of the skull divided by its maximum length, multiplied by 100.

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