eye-ear plane
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eye-ear plane
[¦ī ¦ēr ‚plān] (anthropology)
In craniometric study, a position for placing a human skull so that the lower margins of the orbits and the upper margin of the auditory meatus are on the same horizontal plane. Also known as Frankfurt horizontal.
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