Meaning

1 senses
  1. (especially, physical, uncountable, usually)The practice of taking measurements of the skull.

More definitions
  • the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts

Translations

2 languages

Origin

From cranio- + -metry.

From cranio- + -metry.

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Forms

plural: craniometries
Singularcraniometry

uncountable

Word family

3 related words

See also

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