phrenology
branch of pseudoscience that infers human characteristics based on shape of the skull
Facts
5 properties- Described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Otto's encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
- Developer
- Franz Joseph Gall[3]
- Different from
- phenology, craniology[12][13]
- Practiced by
- phrenologist[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en bumpology
en phrenology
ar Phrenology
ar فراسة الدماغ
ar فرينولوجيا
cs frenologie
da frenologi
de Schädelforschung
de Craniologie
de Kraniologie
de Phrenologe
de Phrenologie
de Schädellehre
el el
es frenologia
es frenología
fa جمجمهخوانی
fa جمجمه خوانی
fa جمجمهٔ خوانی
fr phrénologie
🔖 Identifiers · 41
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh85033751⚖ sources disagree Wikidata sh85033751 ndl_authorities sh85101440 edition 2026-10-01 · pdl-1.0
- GND ID
- 4165493-6
- OpenAlex ID
- C2779136091
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cranial fossa.png ↗
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
- 300054423
- BBC Things ID
- 5553da13-6fc8-486a-9c79-9195bfd8b4d6
- BNCF Thesaurus ID
- 31851
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 139
- Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID
- EM01141b
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/phrenology
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- phrenologie
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- Freebase ID
- /m/05y63
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- frenologia
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0110353
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 4723598
- Harper's tag
- phrenology
- Iconclass notation
- 32A61
- J9U entity ID
- 987007531385305171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)
- phrenology
- KBpedia ID
- Phrenology
- Lex ID
- frenologi
- Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID
- sj2021059307
- MeSH descriptor ID
- D010792
- MeSH tree code
- K01.400.799
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 2779136091
- Museum-digital tag ID
- 73526
- NDL Authority ID
- 00566750
- NE.se ID
- frenologi
- NL CR AUT ID
- ph413849
- Namuwiki ID
- 골상학
- PSH ID
- 9247
- SVKKL authority ID
- 0225652-frenologie
- Store medisinske leksikon ID
- frenologi
- Topic's main category
- Category:Phrenology
- Treccani ID
- frenologia
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
- frenologia-o-cranioscopia
- UMLS CUI
- C0031775
- WikiKids ID
- Frenologie
- YSO ID
- 19118
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/8b5e93c7-4484-49b7-900f-7d86a47bc0fb
🔗 Connections
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← Field of work 3
Different from 2
Developer 1
Instance of 1
Topic's main category 1
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Summary
phrenology is a branch of pseudoscience[1].