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- From: clong@romulus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: Answers to Hard Analogies
- Message-ID: <Dec.22.07.59.39.1992.5877@romulus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 12:59:39 GMT
- References: <Dec.13.05.13.05.1992.6307@romulus.rutgers.edu> <BzC36E.1x0@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In article <BzC36E.1x0@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>, Bill Taylor writes:
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- >> 2. Mountain : Plain :: Acrocephalic : ?
-
- >> 2. Homalocephalic
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- >> Acrocephalic is having a pointed head; homalocephalic is having a flat head.
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- > What about PLATYCEPHALIC ?
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- _Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary_ tells me this means having a
- wide skull, but it also says that platycephaly is a flattening of the
- skull. _The American Pocket Medical Dictionary_, 13th edition, says
- that platycephalous means having a wide, flat head. Ambiguous, but
- it looks okay. Anyone care to jump in?
- --
- Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ 08807-2618
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