phrenology
(noun) a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
Source: WordNet® 3.1
phrenology (countable and uncountable, plural phrenologies)
(medicine, biology) The science, now generally discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
• cranioscopy
• nephrology
Source: Wiktionary
Phre*nol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy: cf. F. phrénologie.]
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.
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.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 November 2024
(adverb) involving the use of histology or histological techniques; “histologically identifiable structures”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
