CRANIAL INDEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cranial index mean? 

• CRANIAL INDEX (noun)
  The noun CRANIAL INDEX has 1 sense:

1. ratio (in percent) of the maximum breadth to the maximum length of a skull

  Familiarity information: CRANIAL INDEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRANIAL INDEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ratio (in percent) of the maximum breadth to the maximum length of a skull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

breadth index; cephalic index; cranial index

Hypernyms ("cranial index" is a kind of...):

ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))

 Context examples 

"I suppose you are aware," said he, checking off points upon his fingers, "that the cranial index is a constant factor?"

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)