Phrenograph

Quick meaning: Phrenograph is a noun meaning (physiology) An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.

Meaning

(physiology) An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Selina Campbell, who was the one who ordered the phrenograph in the first place, almost certainly read it in a different light.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• phrenographs

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