Craniology

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Craniology \Cra`ni*ol"o*gy\ (-j?), n. [Cranium + -logy.]
     The department of science (as of ethnology or arch[ae]ology)
     which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications,
     etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.
     [1913 Webster]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "craniology":
     anatomy, anthropography, anthropologist, anthropology,
     anthropometry, behavioral science, craniometry, demography,
     ethnography, ethnologist, ethnology, human ecology,
     human geography, metoposcopy, phrenologist, phrenology,
     physiognomy, psychology, science of man, sociologist, sociology