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gnathic index in American English
a measurement of the relative amount of protrusion of the jaw, expressed in terms of the ratio of the distance from the nasion to the basion (arbitrarily taken as 100) to the distance from the basion to the middle point of the alveolar process
noun: the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter

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