Craniometry
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The practice of taking measurements of the skull. especially, physical, uncountable, usually
"But regardless of what they made of phrenology, those who saw craniometry as a means of measuring the relative weight of intelligence and emotion in psychological makeup were generally sceptical as to whether, as Blumenbach and Camper believed, humanity had branched from one ancestral pair into varietal types as a result of colonising different continents."
- 2 the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts wordnet
Example
More examples"But regardless of what they made of phrenology, those who saw craniometry as a means of measuring the relative weight of intelligence and emotion in psychological makeup were generally sceptical as to whether, as Blumenbach and Camper believed, humanity had branched from one ancestral pair into varietal types as a result of colonising different continents."
Etymology
From cranio- + -metry.
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