brevilineal

English

Adjective

brevilineal (comparative more brevilineal, superlative most brevilineal)

1. Short and stocky.
   • 1969, Carlo Sirtori, Fondazione Carlo Erba, Medicine, Biology, and Surgery at the Carlo Erba Foundation, page 589:

     The study of biotype also led to interesting conclusions: 53 patients were normolineal, 28 longilineal and only 19 brevilineal; actually , some represented an intermediate type , to which White has called attention: athletic, muscular, overweight subjects, whome Sheldon classified as endomorph-mesomorphs, that is brevilineal tending to normolineal.

   • 2013, Yolanda Eraso, Representing Argentinian Mothers, page 71:

     The three basic body types marked different fertility types: brevilineal was cast as the most fertile woman at the top of the scale, longuilineal at the bottom, with the normal types in the middle.

   • 2018, Pierre Philippe Baldeyrou, Amir Hanna, Nicusor Adrian Crutu, Normal and Pathological Bronchial Semiology: A Visual Approach, page 15:

     This is more prominent in brevilineal individuals, and thus the origin of the left lower lobe (LLL) bronchus is accessible in rigid bronchoscopy only by using small tubes.

Related terms

• longuineal
• normolineal

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: brevilíneo