bigoniac
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The bigoniac diameter may also show an exaggerated development due to the enormous volume of the mandible ( criminaloid type — Lombroso's assassin type ) ."
Etymology
From bi- + gonia + -ac.