| phrenology |
a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
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| phrygian cap |
the cholecystographic appearance of the gallbladder showing kinking between the body and the fundus, in which the fundus is fixed and folded.
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| phrenologist |
Phrenology (from Greek: φρην, mind and λογος, study) is a theory which claims to be able to determine character, personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (reading "bumps"). Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall around 1800, and very popular in the 19th century, it is now discredited as a pseudoscience. ...
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| phrygian cap |
The Phrygian cap or Liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, worn by the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia in antiquity. In vase-paintings and other Greek art, the Phrygian cap serves to identify the Trojan hero Paris as non-Greek; Roman poets habitually use the epithet "Phrygian" to mean Trojan. The Phrygian cap can also be seen on the Trajan's Column carvings, worn by the Dacians, and on the Arch of Severus worn by the Parthians. ...
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| phrenic nerve |
The phrenic nerve arises from spinal nerves C3, C4 and C5. It provides motor innervation to the diaphragm and is thus responsible for the act of breathing. It also provides sensory innervation for many components of the mediastinum and pleura, as well as the upper abdomen, especially the liver and gall bladder. Pain arising from structures served by the phrenic nerve is often "referred" to other somatic regions served by spinal nerves C3-C5. ...
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