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Phrenology
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What's The Definition Of Phrenology?
[n] a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
Synonyms | Synonyms for Phrenology: Related Terms | Find terms related to Phrenology: See Also | bioscience | life science Phrenology In Webster's Dictionary \Phre*nol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, the mind + -logy: cf.
F. phr['e]nologie.]
1. The science of the special functions of the several parts
of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the
various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the
brain.
2. In popular usage, the physiological hypothesis of Gall,
that the mental faculties, and traits of character, are
shown on the surface of the head or skull; craniology.
Note: Gall marked out on his model of the head the places of
twenty-six organs, as round inclosures with vacant
interspaces. Spurzheim and Combe divided the whole
scalp into oblong and conterminous patches. --Encyc.
Brit.
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