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platymeric

platymeric adjective: having a broad femur.

Adjective

platymeric (not comparable)

  1. Having a broad femur
    • In terms of the platymeric index, a Kruskal-Wallis test revealed significant differences among sample medians (p0.040): post hoc comparisons revealed significant differences between MPHO and NEAN (p0.016), and NEAN and EULU (p0.014) (Fig 2F).2015 December 18, “A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Words formed from platymeric

  • platymeric index

Questions about platymeric

What does platymeric mean?
Platymeric means having a broad femur.
What part of speech is platymeric?
Platymeric is an adjective.

Words near platymeric in the dictionary

  1. platykurtic
  2. platykurticity
  3. platykurtosis
  4. platykurtotic
  5. platymeria
  6. platymeric
  7. platymery
  8. platymeter
  9. platymeters
  10. platynite
  11. platynotan

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