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craniology
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tags: [medical] [obsolete]
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Definition:phrenology; the study of the shape and protuberances of the skull, based on the now discredited belief that they reveal character and mental capacity
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I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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