Found 2 items, similar to phrenology.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: phrenology phrenology n : a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
English → English (gcide) Definition: Phrenology Phrenology \Phre*nol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, the mind + -logy: cf. F. phr['e]nologie.] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Note: 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. --Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]