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phrenology (medicine) and flatus (medicine)


phrenology (medicine)


phrenology


1. <study> 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.

Gall marked out on his model of the head the places of twenty-six organs, as round inclosures with vacant interspaces. Spurzheim and Combe divided the whole scalp into oblong and conterminous patches.

Origin: Gr, the mind: cf. F. Phrenologie.

Source: Websters Dictionary


flatus (medicine)


flatus


Origin: L, fr. Flare to blow.

1. A breath; a puff of wind.

2. Wind or gas generated in the stomach or Other cavities of the body.

Source: Websters Dictionary