a. Anthrop. [f. Gr. ταπεινός low + κεφαλή head + -IC: see CEPHALIC.] Of the nature of, or having, a low flattened skull. So Tapinocephalism, Tapinocephaly, the condition of being tapinocephalic.
1870. Jrnl. Ethnological Soc. Lond., II. (N.S.), 467. ‘Low,’ or, as the class of skull might be termed, in the euphonious language of craniologists, ‘tapinocephalic.’
1878. Bartley, trans. Topinard’s Anthrop., I. v. 176. Tapinocephalic. Ibid. Index, Tapinocephaly.
1886. Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst., XVI. 150. The skulls thus agree with the ordinary Bushman skull in most respects being microseme, platyrhine, tapeinocephalic. Ibid. (1897), XXVII. 281. The former inclining to tapcinocephalism.
1898. A. C. Haddon, Study of Man, ii. 47. The East Anglians have a form of skull slightly different to that of the South Saxons. It is rather broader, less tapeinocephalic (i.e. less low in the crown).
