phrenology

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Etymology

From phreno- + -logy.

Noun

phrenology (uncountable)

1. (medicine, biology) The science, now generally discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.

   Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.

Synonyms

• cranioscopy

Related terms

• phrenologist, phrenological
• psychognomy

Translations

the discredited "science" or pseudo-science of phrenology

• Finnish: frenologia (fi)
• French: phrénologie (fr) f
• German: Phrenologie (de) f
• Portuguese: frenologia (pt)

• Russian: френология (ru) (frenológija) f
• Turkish: frenoloji (tr)
• Volapük: frenolog (vo)

See also

• have one's head read

Anagrams

• nephrology