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phrenologist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | craniologist |
| Type of | charlatan, mountebank |
| Derivation | phrenology |
Examples of phrenologist
phrenologist
The phrenologist would usually take measurements of the overall head size using a caliper.
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Dumont's remains were identified by Dumontier, doctor on board the Astrolabe and a phrenologist.
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The phrenologist movement failed to supply a scientific basis for their theories and has since been rejected.
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Bob Garrett played a phrenologist at Cowtown during Steampunk Day, uncovering what skull shape tells about a person.
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Pettigrew had the head examined by a phrenologist.
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Before Esquirol required Gall to make predictions, the phrenologist was free to concoct any explanation to fit the situation.
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As a phrenologist felt the skull, he could refer to a numbered diagram showing where each functional area was said to be located.
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Dumoutier, as a medical scientist and phrenologist, thus relied on painted plaster positives to provide an appropriately informative record of the people he met while so far from his home.
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- Someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull
- (phrenology) a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
- Phrenology (from Greek u03C6u03C1u03AEu03BD (phru0113n), meaning "mind", and u03BBu03CCu03B3u03BFu03C2 (logos), meaning "knowledge") is a pseudomedicine 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...
- (Phrenology (album)) Phrenology is the fifth studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, released November 26, 2002 on Geffen Records. Following the breakthrough success of Things Fall Apart (1999), its release was highly anticipated and delayed, as recording took two years. ...
- (phrenologists) Adherents to the belief that bumps and indentations on the skull provided information about the magnitude of some trait supported by the underlying brain region.
- (Phrenology) Divination by means of the features of the head (exterior).
- (Phrenology) The now discredited practice of assessing personality traits from head shape.
- (PHRENOLOGY) is the long practiced study of head formations.
- (Phrenology) Relating the bumps on the head to specific qualities.
