PART I: STANDARDS OF HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE
Open Access
- 1 February 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 19 (1) , 52-54
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.19.1.52
Abstract
During the first of two recognizable phases in skull growth in early childhood, the transverse diameter increases 20% more rapidly than the longitudinal in both boys and girls. During the second phase the growth rate of the transverse diameter is less than the longitudinal, the trend toward dolichocephaly becoming established by the end of the first year.Keywords
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