noun
- The condition of having a long, narrow skull; a skull with a cephalic index below 75.
Usage: medical/anthropological term; also called dolichocephalism
Examples
- Anthropologists use dolichocephaly as one measure to classify human skull shapes.
- The skeleton showed signs of dolichocephaly, indicating a long-headed morphology.
- Dolichocephaly is contrasted with brachycephaly in physical anthropology studies.
- The museum's exhibit explained how dolichocephaly was once used in racial classification systems.
- Modern researchers recognize that dolichocephaly varies naturally across human populations.