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cephalometer
[ sef-uh-lom-i-ter ]
noun
- an instrument for measuring the human head.
cephalometer
/ ˌɛəˈɒɪə /
noun
- an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ···· [sef-, uh, -loh-, me, -trik], adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cephalometer1
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Rippon begins with an 1895 quote from social psychologist Gustave Le Bon, who used his portable cephalometer to declare that women “represent the most inferior forms of human evolution”.
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He wore a hat measuring six and seven eighths on the cephalometer used by hatters, which is equivalent to twenty-one inches and a quarter of circumference.
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