PHRENOLOGY
\fɹɛnˈɒləd͡ʒi], \fɹɛnˈɒlədʒi], \f_ɹ_ɛ_n_ˈɒ_l_ə_dʒ_i]\
Definitions of PHRENOLOGY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character, especially according to the hypothesis of F. J. Gall (1758-1828). (Webster 3d ed)
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A system of character reading based on the theory that the qualities of the mind and character are shown by the form of the skull.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The doctrine that each of the mental faculties is located in a definite part of the cerebral cortex, the size of which part varies in a direct ratio with the development of the corresponding faculty, this size being indicated by the external configuration of the skull. On this theory it would be possible to determine one's mental characteristics by an examination of the prominences on the skull.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The theory of Gall and his followers, which connects the mental faculties with certain parts of the brain, and professes to discover the character from an examination of the skull.
By Daniel Lyons
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Doctrine of a special connexion between certain parts of the brain and certain functions of the mind.
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Phrenologic.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Phrenologic, phrenological.
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Phrenologist.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The science of the human mind as connected with the supposed organs of its action in the brain, and as developed by the external undulations of the crauium.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That science which teaches that the nature and character of the faculties of the human mind may be ascertained from the development of the different parts of the brains, as exhibited in the external form of the upper part of the skull.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The doctrine that the different mental faculties have their seats respectively in particular tracts of brain surface, and that the relative predominance of the faculties can be diagnosticated from the conformation of the parts of the skull overlying those tracts. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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