English Dictionary

phrenology

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

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

日本語の意味

頭蓋相学：個人の性格と頭蓋骨の形態との関係を研究する、現在では否定されている疑似科学。

Despite being thoroughly discredited, phrenology once influenced criminal justice and psychiatry by claiming that the morphology of the skull revealed a person's character.

完全に否定されているにもかかわらず、かつて骨相学は頭蓋骨の形態が人の性格を示すと主張し、刑事司法や精神医学に影響を与えた。

意味（1）

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

Phrenology was the practice of correlating bumps on a skull with mental powers and attributes of character.

phrenologies （ plural ）