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adj. - Of or relating to the science of measuring the human body and its parts and functional capacities especially as an aid to the study of human evolution and variation

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  • Montano, who took the anthropometrical measurements of many crania which he obtained from caves in northeastern Mindanáo.
  • Montano who was taking anthropometrical measurements of Manóbos in the towns through which he passed, but as Urios remarks, this was only a pretext for withdrawing from...
  • Nowadays, he has declared, girls are no longer pretty -- they are beautiful; and as Mr. Galton, the anthropometrical expert, himself admits, they, even more than the...
  • Once the corridors were cleared the two men would be taken to the Central Police Station, and the woman Rosalie, too — she would be put in a room by herself — and there they...
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