craniometer

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cra·ni·om·e·ter

(krā′nē-ŏm′ĭ-tər)

An instrument or device used to measure the skull.

cra′ni·o·met′ric (-ə-mĕt′rĭk), cra′ni·o·met′ri·cal adj.

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craniometer

(ˌkreɪnɪˈɒmɪtə)

(Tools) an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull

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cra•ni•om•e•ter

(ˌkreɪ niˈɒm ɪ tər)

n.

an instrument for measuring the external dimensions of skulls.

[1875–80]

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craniometer - an instrument for measuring skull sizes

measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system - instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something

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Written in Russian, German, English and Latin, like the notebooks he kept during his student days (Greenop 1944, 29), they record nothing of the personal: sketches; a population census of Erub; cranial measurements, perhaps using the craniometer he had taken to Micronesia in 1876 (Webster 1984, 345); measurements and observations on skin and eye colour and other physical attributes; and notes on cranial deformation among Mabuiag infants.