Phrenology: alternatives and connections

The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; excl…

The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence…

The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and t…

that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wa…

The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.

The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.

Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate o…

Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pai…

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root an…

An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, an…

The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions.

That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the or…

The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; th…

The peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar…

A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, a…

A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.

The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered…

Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the…