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assortment (medicine) and Gall's craniology (medicine)


assortment (medicine)


assortment


In genetics, the relationship between nonallelic genetic traits that are transmitted from parent to child more or less independently in accordance with the degree of linkage between the respective loci.


Gall's craniology (medicine)


Gall's craniology -->
phrenology


1. <study> The science of the special functions of the several parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain.

2. In popular usage, the physiological hypothesis of Gall, that the mental faculties, and traits of character, are shown on the surface of the head or skull; craniology.

Gall marked out on his model of the head the places of twenty-six organs, as round inclosures with vacant interspaces. Spurzheim and Combe divided the whole scalp into oblong and conterminous patches.

Origin: Gr, the mind: cf. F. Phrenologie.

Source: Websters Dictionary