A person with a relatively short, broad skull; an individual whose head width is large compared to length.
From Greek brachys (short) + kephalē (head), a scientific term for a specific skull shape used in anthropometry.
Victorian anthropologists obsessed over measuring skulls to categorize humans, and 'brachycephal' was one of their classifications—now we know skull shape varies normally and tells us nothing meaningful about people.
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