1) Bioscience 2) Life science 3) Obsolete scientific theory 4) Philosophy of mind 5) Skull-centered pseudoscience
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Phrenology (from Greek: φρήν, phrēn, `mind`; and λόγος, logos, `knowledge`) is a pseudoscience primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules. Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall ...
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study of bumps on the head
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• (n.) 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. • (n.) In popular usage, the physiological hypothesis of Gall, that the mental faculties, and traits of character, are shown on the surface of the head o...
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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 hypotheses of ... [3 related articles]
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The reading of character and mental ability from the shape of a person's skull.
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The reading of character and mental ability from the shape of a person's skull.
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Phre·nol'o·gy noun [ Greek ..., ..., the mind +
-logy : confer French
phrénologie .]
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.
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Phrenology: The study of variations in size, shape, and proportion of the cranium. Phrenology 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 individual mental faculties ...
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Phrenology (craniology) is the study of the external form of the human skull, as indicative of mental powers and moral qualities. It was propounded by Franz Gall, a German physician around 1796, who enumerated some thirty faculties of the human mind. He believed the configuration of the skull to correspond closely with that of the brain, and declar...
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n] - a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
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phrenology 1. The theory, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, that mental faculties or character) could be determined by the location of bumps and other topographical features on the skull; therefore, a bump here might indicate intelligence, a bump there, willpower, etc. 2. The scientific study or theory of mental faculties.
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noun a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
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study of the shape of the skull to determine character
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