normolineal

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normolineal (comparative more normolineal, superlative most normolineal)

  1. Having an average body type, between brevilineal and longuineal.
    • 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 longuilineal 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.