| phrenology | 1. <study> 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. 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. Origin: Gr, the mind: cf. F. Phrenologie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
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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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is the long practiced study of head formations.
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Belief that there is a relationship between mental attributes and the shape of the head. Started in 1800 by Franz Gall and Johann Spurzheim that the brain was divided into areas of self-esteem, destructiveness, etc. For a while it was fashionable for people to go and have their bumps read.
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