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CEPHALOMETRY
cephalometry
(noun) measurement of human heads
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cephalometry (usually uncountable, plural cephalometries)
The measurement of the skull, especially in order to study its growth and development
Source: Wiktionary
Ceph`a*lom"e*try, n. (Anthropometry)
Definition: The measurement of the heads of living persons. -- Ceph`a*lo*met"ric (#),a.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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