单词 | osteometric |
释义 | osteometricadj. Physical Anthropology and Zoology. Of or relating to osteometry. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > study of body > study of bones > [adjective] osteological1703 osteologic1828 osteometrical1890 osteometric1898 1898 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 190 136 The measurements were taken by means of an osteometric board. 1899 Nature 24 Aug. 408 Dr. Hepburn exhibited a new osteometric board, the idea of which was to keep the vertical sliding piece always perfectly parallel to itself... By this simple device all irregularities in successive measurements of the same bone were quite done away with. 1952 C. R. Rao Adv. Statist. Methods in Biometric Res. viii. 304 Sexing of osteometric material... The sex of an excavated skull or jawbone can be ascertained with a high chance of success if the associated pelvis is also found. 1986 D. C. Brinkhuizen & A. T. Clason Fish & Archaeol. 10 The results of the osteometric study are of great interest. 2003 Jrnl. Forensic Sci. 48 717 Osteometric sorting is the formal use of size and shape to sort bones from one another. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1898 |
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