English Explanatory Dictionary

Frankfurt plane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The anatomical position of the human skull, based on a plane passing through the inferior margin of the left orbit and the upper margin of each ear canal or external auditory meatus.

Word forms

Frankfurt plane Frankfurt planes

Etymology

Established in 1884 at the World Congress on Anthropology in Frankfurt, Germany.

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