phrenograph

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.

   “Without varying the adjustment of the phrenograph take a tracing while repeatedly interrupting the respiration by holding the nostrils. What does the phrenogram show?”

2. isim A phrenological profile; a delineation of a person's characteristics based on a phrenological examination.

   “The accuracy and value of a phrenograph, therefore, must depend upon the learning, judgment and skill of the person who makes it, and its defects should not be charged to phrenology considered as a system of mental philosophy.”