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Noun Concept
Categories: Biological anthropology, Articles with short description, Human head and neck, Phrenology, History of psychology
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phrenology  Brain shape science  Bump of Locality  Bumpology  Frenology
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A now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties WordNet 3.0
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A now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Phrenology is a pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits. Wikipedia
Branch of pseudoscience: assertion of human characteristics based on shape of the skull Wikidata
The science, now generally discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull. Wiktionary
The discredited "science" or pseudo-science of phrenology. Wiktionary (translation)
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Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes. Wiktionary
IS A
craniology
DERIVATION
phrenologist
phrenological
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Nordisk familjebok
Otto's encyclopedia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
DEVELOPER
Franz Joseph Gall
DIFFERENT FROM
phenology
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Brain shape science, Bump of Locality, Bumpology, Frenology, philoprogenitiveness, phrenological, phrenologists, Phrenometer, Phrenometers, Prenology

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