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单词 platyhieric
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platyhieric
platyhieric adj.
Brit. /ˌplatɪhʌɪˈɛrɪk/
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U.S. /ˌplædᵻˌhaɪˈɛrɪk/
[ < platy- comb. form + ancient Greek ἱερόν, neuter of ἱερός sacred, holy (see hiero- comb. form), short for ἱερὸν ὀστέον , corresponding to post-classical Latin os sacrum (see os sacrum n.)] Physical Anthropology (now historical and rare) having a sacrum which is broader than it is long.
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sacral1767
platyhieric1886
1886 W. Turner in Jrnl. Anat. & Pathol. 20 317 The following descriptive terms may conveniently express these differences in the relative length and breadth of the sacrum. As the Greek word ἱερὸν is the equivalent of the Latin sacrum; the term dolichohieric would signify a sacrum in which the length exceeded the breadth, whilst platyhieric would signify a sacrum in which the breadth exceeded the length.
1895 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Platyhieric, with broad sacrum. Epithet applied to species or individuals in whom the sacral index (breadth × 100 ÷ height) exceeds 100. Nearly all females of whatever race are platyhieric, but amongst males few black races come under this head.
1900 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 30 149 Scott remarks that of three sacra measured by him, one (a male) was platyhieric.
1994 Jrnl. Design Hist. 7 102 From these dualities Turner [sc. W. Turner (1886)] generated an elaborate racial hierarchy down from the platyhieric European to the..‘Kaffirs and Bushmen’.
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