In race description the prominence of the edges of the jaws is called prognathism, and its absence orthognathism. ❋ Various (N/A)
Exaggerated prominence of the maxillaries is called prognathism; that of the superior maxilla is seen in the North American Indians. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Various methods have been devised in order to express with some accuracy the degree of prognathism or orthognathism of any given skull; most of these methods being essentially modifications of that devised by Peter Camper, in order to attain what he called the ❋ Unknown (2007)
From Central Asia eastward to the Pacific Islands and subcontinents on the one hand, and to America on the other, brachycephaly and orthognathism gradually diminish, and are replaced by dolichocephaly and prognathism, less, however, on the ❋ Unknown (2007)
But a little consideration will show that any ‘facial angle’ that has been devised, can be competent to express the structural modifications involved in prognathism and orthognathism, only in a rough and general sort of way. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Japanese; there is no tendency towards prognathism; and the fold of integument which conceals the upper eyelids of the Japanese is never to be met with. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
It presents no appearance of that prognathism which diminishes the facial angle. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The other type is quasi-Hindú in its delicacy of form, with small heads, oval faces, noses à la Roxolane, lips sub-tumid but without prognathism, and fine almond-shaped eyes, with remarkably thick and silky lashes. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Animals have snouts that project out from their faces prognathism, leaving them chinless. ❋ John Clayton Nils Jansma (2001)
On the whole, the prognathism is considerable but is not as variable as that of Manóbos and of Mandáyas. ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)
-- Face of another negro, showing flat nose, less prognathism and larger cerebral region. ❋ Various (N/A)
The lips are thick and bowed, but there is little or no prognathism. ❋ Fay-Cooper Cole (1921)
The good gentleman was of a marked prognathism, a type of degeneration, indifference, intellectual torpor, and nevertheless, he reached the top. ❋ P��o Baroja (1914)
Tchad, and Benue, strong and numerous tribes of a more markedly negro type, of great stature, strongly dolichocephalous, with very black skins, rounded foreheads, thick lips, and frequent prognathism. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
It generally lacks a bony superciliary arch; skin and eyes are brown to black; the hair black, short and frizzly or wooly; lithe nose flat and broad; the lips thick and protruding, while prognathism is universal. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Those of the melanodermic or black race are: excessive length of the legs; total height 7 to 7.5 heads; skin from dark brown almost to black; the hair of the head thick, black, and frizzly, with an elliptical cross-section; hair on the body scant; an inclination to dolichocephaly (with a very decided breadth of the skull behind); pronounced prognathism; powerful broad, and high jaws. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
There was occasional marked supraorbital development, retreating chin, and prognathism. ❋ David Prescott Barrows (1913)
= -- Scanty beard; abundant hair, prognathism, thick lips, dull eye, lemurian appendix to the jaw, pteleriform type of the nasal opening, projecting ears, squinting eyes, receding forehead and deformed nose. ❋ James Leslie Allan Kayll (1908)
