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craniometer

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cra·ni·om·e·ter  (krn-m-tr)
n.
An instrument or device used to measure the skull.
crani·o·metric (--mtrk), crani·o·metri·cal adj.
craniometer [ˌkreɪnɪˈɒmɪtə]
n
(Engineering / Tools) an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
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Noun1.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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On the Importance to the Anthropologist and Ethnologist of an Accurate Method of measuring Human Crania and of recording the Results; with a Description of a new Craniometer, Ulster Journal of Archaeology 1: 198-208 (1st series).
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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.
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