5 March 2015

prognathous

[prog-nuh-thuh s, prog-ney-]

adjective, Craniometry
1. having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.

Also, prognathic [prog-nath-ik]
Origin
1830-1840; pro-2+ -gnathous

Related forms
prognathism [prog-nuh-thiz-uh m] (Show IPA), prognathy, noun
hyperprognathous, adjective

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Examples from the web for prognathous
– Head hypo- prognathous, ovoid, more or less convex from lateral view.
– Head hypo- prognathous, oval, convex from lateral view.
– Head hypo- prognathous, broadly oval, flat from lateral view.

anagram

hangup torso
groan upshot
thug soprano

Today’s aphorism

The essential job is to get people to recognize war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda.

– George Orwell

On this day

5 March 1946 – The term ‘Iron Curtain’ to describe the Soviet Union and Communist Europe, is coined in a speech by Winston Churchill.

5 March 1953 – USSR leader Joseph Stalin died at his dacha at Kuntseva,15km west of Moscow, following a stroke three days earlier. An autopsy suggested he may have died from ingesting warfarin, a rat poison which thins the blood, and that this may have caused the cerebral hemorrhage. The warfarin may have been added to his food by Deputy Premier Beria and Nikita Khrushchev. It was later revealed by former Politburo member, Vyacheslav Molotov in his 1993 memoirs that Beria had boasted of poisoning Stalin.