bigoniac
English
Etymology
bi- + gonia + -ac
Adjective
bigoniac (not comparable)
- Synonym of bigonial
- 1885 April 14, J.G. Garson, “On the Inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego”, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 15, page 155:
- The posterior contour is shown by ascertaining the relations which the bistephanic or maximum frontal and bigoniac diameters bear to the bizygomatic width, this being taken as 100.
- 1906, William Halse Rivers, The Todas, page 708:
- the large divergence in the case of the maxillo-zygomatic index, which is calculated from the bigoniac and bizygomatic measurements, in both of which there is considerable scope for differences between different observers.
- 1913, Maria Montessori, Pedagogical Anthropology, page 384:
- The bigoniac diameter may also show an exaggerated development due to the enormous volume of the mandible ( criminaloid type — Lombroso's assassin type ) .