phrenograph

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.
    — Finally, it has been found possible in various ways to record the diaphragmatic movements by the insertion of tn elastic bar connected with a tambour into the abdomen below it (phrenograph) , by the insertion of needles into different parts of its structure, or by recording the contraction of isolated strips of the diaphragm.
  2. A phrenological profile; a delineation of a person's characteristics based on a phrenological examination.
    — The accuracy and value of a phrenograph, therefore, must depend upon the learning, judgment and skill of the person who makes it, and its defects should not be charged to phrenology considered as a system of mental philosophy.

词形变化

phrenographs plural

词源

From phreno- + -graph.
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