Narrow nose - Nowadays

…There are also large racial differences in nose shape, ranging from the high noses of Caucasians to the extremely low and wide noses of pygmies. The percentage of nose width to nose height (the length from the top of the nasal bone to the inferior nasal point) is called the nose index, and a value between 70 and 84.9 is considered a medium nose, with distinctions made between wide and narrow noses. Caucasians tend to have narrow noses, blacks to have wide noses, and many Japanese people tend to have narrow noses that are close to a medium nose. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "narrow nose" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…鼻の形も，白人の高い鼻から，極度に低く広いピグミーの鼻まで大きな人種差がある。鼻幅の鼻高(鼻骨上端から下鼻点までの長さ)に対する百分率を鼻示数と呼び，70～84.9を中鼻とし，広鼻，狭鼻と区別する。白人は狭鼻，黒人は広鼻であり，日本人には中鼻に近い狭鼻が多い。…

※「狭鼻」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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