Phrenologist

/frəˈnɑːlədʒɪst/

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Phrenology was popular in the 19th century but is now discredited as a pseudoscience.

Phrenologists in the past believed they could determine character traits from skull shapes.

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Literature and films sometimes portray phrenologists to evoke a historical or pseudoscientific theme.

The character in the period drama consulted a phrenologist about his future.

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The term is outdated; modern neuroscience has replaced phrenology.

A neuroscientist today would not consider a phrenologist's theories scientifically valid.

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