Definition of Phrenological

1. Adjective. Of or relating to phrenology.

Partainyms: Phrenology
Derivative terms: Phrenology

Definition of Phrenological

1. a. Of or pertaining to phrenology.

Definition of Phrenological

1. Adjective. Pertaining to phrenology. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phrenological

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Phrenological

1. Of or pertaining to phrenology. Phrenolog"ically. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phrenological

phrenitides
phrenitis
phrenitises
phreno-
phrenocardia
phrenocolic
phrenocolopexy
phrenogastric
phrenogastric ligament
phrenograph
phrenographs
phrenohepatic
phrenologer
phrenologers
phrenologic
phrenological (current term)
phrenologically
phrenologies
phrenologist
phrenologists
phrenology
phrenomagnetic
phrenomagnetism
phrenopericardial angle
phrenoplegia
phrenoptosia
phrenosin
phrenosinic acid
phrenospasm
phrenosplenic ligament

Literary usage of Phrenological

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trial of Dr. Pritchard by Edward William Pritchard, William Roughead (1906)
"phrenological Museum at Edinburgh, with an inspection of the oast of Dr. Pritchard, ... Still the general impression conveyed to a practised phrenological ..."

2. The Lancet (1842)
"Dick, Dr., ou phrenological jurisprudence, 48; on the opinions of phrenologists respecting phrenology, 196; on vegetable diet, 306; note from, 349. ..."

3. A System of Phrenology by George Combe (1842)
"The question will perhaps occur—If the relative proportions of the organs differ in each individual, and if the phrenological bust represents only their ..."

4. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"A term applied to the condition of a mesmerized person, in which, when any cerebral or phrenological organ — so called — is touched, the functions of the ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1841)
"Nates on the United Stales of North America, during a phrenological Visit ... WERE it not for the phrenological matter in the Notes, and the manner in which ..."

6. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1903)
"COATES (J.) Self Help: a phrenological and physiological register, pp. 76. Land. 1892. 8°. ... KESWICK (JB) The new phrenological and physiological ..."

7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"... that the localization of the functions of the brain, or to speak more accurately, the localization of the phrenological organs as taught by the ..."

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