单词 | palatine index |
释义 | > as lemmaspalatine index palatine index n. [compare French indice palatin (P. Broca 1872, in Revue d'anthropol. 1 394)] Physical Anthropology and Anatomy = palatal index n. at palatal adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1878 R. T. H. Bartley tr. P. Topinard Anthropol. ii. 261 M. Broca again takes account of the relation of the maximum breadth of the vault of the palate to its maximum length, in making comparison of races. This is the palatine index. 1923 Biometrika 14 218 The palatine index..is the only one which affords any clear distinction between them [sc. Asiatic and other races]. 1965 Anat. Rec. 209 273 The palatine index showed that 43.2% of the total sample of skulls has narrow (leptostaphyline), 23.7% intermediate (mesostaphyline), and 33.1% wide (brachystaphyline) palates. < as lemmas |
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