Meanings
- not comparableSynonym of bigonial.
The bigoniac diameter may also show an exaggerated development due to the enormous volume of the mandible ( criminaloid type — Lombroso's assassin type ) .
1913, Maria Montessori, Pedagogical Anthropology, page 3842 more examples
The posterior contour is shown by ascertaining the relations which the bistephanic or maximum frontal and bigoniac diameters bear to the bizygomatic width, this being taken as 100.
1885 April 14, J.G. Garson, “On the Inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego”, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 15, page 155the large divergence in the case of the maxillo-zygomatic index, which is calculated from the bigoniac and bizygomatic measurements, in both of which there is considerable scope for differences between different observers.
1906, William Halse Rivers, The Todas, page 708Synonyms: bigonial
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of bigonial.
Origin
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