• (n.) The department of science (as of ethnology or archaeology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.
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The scientific study of variations in size, shape, and proportion of the cranium. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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Cra`ni·ol'o·gy noun [
Cranium +
-logy .] The department of science (as of ethnology or archæology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: krā′nē-ol′ō-jē Definitions: 1. The science concerned with variations in size, shape, and proportion of the cranium, especially with the variations characterizing the different races of humans.
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Craniology: The study of variations in size, shape, and proportion of the skull (cranium). Also known as phrenology, it was a pseudoscience of the 18th and 19th centuries based on the belief that a person's character could be learned by looking with care at the shape of their head and noting each and every bump and depression in their skull. The in...
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Craniology is the science which investigates the structure and capacity of the skull in various animals. The term was sometimes formerly also used as synonymous with phrenology.
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noun the scientific study of the skulls of various human races
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the science that deals with the size, shape, and other characteristics of human skulls.
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