Phrenology Health Dictionary

A quack method, common in the Victorian era, allegedly to study the mind and character of individuals from the shape of the head. As the shape of the head has been shown to depend chie?y upon accidental characteristics, such as the size of the air spaces in the bones, and not upon development of special areas in the contained brain, there is no scienti?c basis for the practice.

n. the study of the bumps on the outside of the skull in order to determine a person’s character. It is based on the mistaken theory that the skull becomes modified over the different functional areas of the cortex of the brain.