Medicine, Physical Anthropologythe science of measuring skulls, chiefly to determine their characteristic relationship to sex, body type, or genetic population.
1860–65; cranio- + -metry
cra•ni•o•met•ric(krā′nē ə me′trik),USA pronunciationcra′ni•o•met′ri•cal, adj.cra′ni•o•met′ri•cal•ly, adv. cra′ni•om′e•trist, n.