pyknic type


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Noun 1. pyknic type - round, fat, and heavy
body type, somatotype - a category of physique
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Thus, he concluded that there is an "affinity" between the pyknic type and the cyclothymic-cycloid-manic-depressive, and between the asthenic and the athletic types and schizothymic-schizoid-schizophrenia (Kretschmer 1925:206-218).
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