cranioscopy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The study of the shape, size, and other features of the human skull. countable,rare,uncountable
    — In the first part of my Atlas on Cranioscopy, which appeared in Leipzig in 1843, I remarked that in the skull of a Greenlander, which I sketched, it was singular, that on this skull there was a decided separation between the upper jaw-bone and the intermaxillary bone, almost as in little children or in quadrupeds.
  2. Phrenology. countable,dated,historical,uncountable
    — A theory that was totally wrong helped focus attention on the right questions. Some people called it phrenology. Its founder, Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) called it cranioscopy. . . . It held that the brain had specific areas of function and that mental and moral attributes of a person could be determined by examination of the cranium.

词形变化

cranioscopies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cranioscopist

词源

From cranio- + -scopy.
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