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dolicho-
- a combining form meaning “long” or “narrow”:
dolichocephalic.
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Origin of dolicho-1
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Example Sentences
It is shewn that early palaeolithic man presents examples of skulls both of brachy-cephalic and dolicho-cephalic proportions.
The brain-case has dolicho-cephalic proportions in a marked degree.
Lastly, the few ancient Egyptian skulls examined are meso- or dolicho-cephalic.
But this blond type is perhaps best accounted for as a hybrid of the dolicho-blond crossed on the Alpine brachycephalic brunet.
Whereas it does not seem feasible to explain the dolicho-blond as such a blend or compromise between any known racial types.
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