phrenograph
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.
noun
A phrenological profile; a delineation of a person's characteristics based on a phrenological examination.
Example Sentences
- "Finally, it has been found possible in various ways to record the diaphragmatic movements by the insertion of tn elastic bar connected with a tambour into the abdomen below it (phrenograph) , by the insertion of needles into different parts of its structure, or by recording the contraction of isolated strips of the diaphragm."
- "Without varying the adjustment of the phrenograph take a tracing while repeatedly interrupting the respiration by holding the nostrils. What does the phrenogram show?"
- "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."
- "Selina Campbell, who was the one who ordered the phrenograph in the first place, almost certainly read it in a different light."
Etymology
From phreno- + -graph.