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单词 dolichopellic
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dolichopellicadj.

Brit. /ˌdɒlᵻkəʊˈpɛlɪk/, U.S. /ˌdɑləkoʊˈpɛlɪk/, /ˈˌdɑləkoʊpɛlɪk/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with another borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek δολιχός , Greek πέλλα , -ic suffix.
Etymology: < ancient Greek δολιχός long (see Dolichos n.) + πέλλα bowl (see pelike n.; taken in sense ‘pelvis’ by analogy with the sense development of classical Latin pēlvis pelvis n., although the two words are probably not cognate) + -ic suffix.
Chiefly Physical Anthropology.
Of a human pelvis: having the anteroposterior diameter greater than the transverse diameter; = anthropoid adj. 3.
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1885 W. Turner in Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 20 128 By dolichopellic is to be understood a pelvis in which the conjugate diameter of the brim is either longer than the transverse or approaches closely to it.
1938 Lancet 13 Aug. 374/1 [They] had drawn attention to the frequency with which occipito-posterior positions are associated with dolichopellic pelves.
1982 Social Sci. & Med. 16 1315/2 In the end he persuades this reviewer that only cultural myopia has kept us from recognizing that the more perfect pelvis is the ‘Anthropoid, dolichopellic or pthecoid pelvis’ that anthropologists originally scorned as ‘primitive’.
2005 C. V. Merry Mind ii. 60 He classified the women as follows: Dolichopellic (anthropoid) 92 cases 15.3% .
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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