skull shape
Bone head form
Skull shape is the physical form or contour of the cranium.
The term appears in anthropology, archaeology, and medicine, but also in phrenology and race pseudoscience—discredited fields that claimed skull shape revealed character or justified racial hierarchies.
Modern usage is largely clinical: The pediatrician monitored the infant's skull shape for signs of plagiocephaly.
- craniumSkull bone structure
- phrenologySkull-bump personality assessment
- frontal boneSkull plate above eyes
- brow ridgeBone prominence above eyes
- mandibleLower facial bone
cranial capacity · sutures · maxilla · elongated · flat head · back of head · soft spot · bumps · dome · cone head · anthropology · forehead · bone · temples · jawline · profile · ridges · fontanelle
- Genetic Traitshair color, dark hair, skin color, dimples, blood type
- craniometrycranial capacity, head circumference, glabella, lambda, vertex
- osteometrylong bones, cranial capacity, body proportions, sex determination
- skull anatomycranium, frontal bone, braincase, mandible, maxilla
- anthropometrybody measurements, body proportions, craniometry, somatotype, stature
- breed standardsconformation, type, faults, disqualifications, soundness