Hypertext Webster Gateway: "phrenology"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Phrenology \Phre*nol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, the mind + -logy: cf.
F. phr['e]nologie.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
phrenology
n : a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of
the strengths of different faculties
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