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High-rise and longitudinal index

High-rise and longitudinal index (synonym: the high-rise and longitudinal index) – a quantitative index of a shape of a skull; is the skull height relation expressed as a percentage (distance basion – a bregma) to its longitudinal diameter (distance of a glabell – an occipital point).

 
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