Meaning of phrenograph | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.
2. A phrenological profile; a delineation of a person's characteristics based on a phrenological examination.

Examples

“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.”

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