Definition of Phrenism. Meaning of Phrenism. Synonyms of Phrenism

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Definition of Phrenism

Phrenism
Phrenism Phre"nism, n. [See Phrenic.] (Biol.) See Vital force, under Vital.

Meaning of Phrenism from wikipedia

- In Ancient Gr**** philosophy, Phren (Ancient Gr****: φρήν, romanized: phrēn, lit. 'mind'; plural phrenes, φρένες) is the location of thought or contemplation...
- derived from the Gr**** schizein (Ancient Gr****: σχίζειν, lit. 'to split') and phrēn (Ancient Gr****: φρήν, lit. 'mind'). Its use was intended to describe the...
- expression, and apathy. The term was coined from the Gr**** roots schizein and phrēn, "to split" and "mind", in reference to a "splitting of mental functions"...
- separate from either plexus. The name of the nerve comes from Ancient Gr**** phren 'diaphragm'. The phrenic nerve originates in the phrenic motor nucleus in...
- criticized as "paleo-phrenology". The term phrenology, from Ancient Gr**** φρήν (phrēn) 'mind' and λόγος (logos) 'knowledge', was used in the early 19th century...
- Oneirophrenia (from the Gr**** words "ὄνειρος" (oneiros, "dream") and "φρήν" (phrēn, "mind")) is a hallucinatory, dream-like state caused by several conditions...
- are ascribed to the Seven Sages of Greece—was phrónēsis (φρόνησις), from phrēn (φρήν, lit. 'mind'), while sophía referred to technical skill.[citation...
- Gr**** φωτω- (phōtō-), < φῶς (phôs), light photopathy phren-, phrenic- the mind Gr**** φρήν (phrḗn), intellect, wits, mind phrenic nerve, schizophrenia...
- word schizophrenia from the Ancient Gr**** skhízō [σχίζω, "to split"] and phrḗn [φρήν, "mind"]) and Sigmund Freud to explain the splitting (German: Spaltung)...
- "bogtrotter" is a derogatory term for an Irish person. She wrote Schizo-phren, a one-woman play with songs.[citation needed] From the 1980s, she often...