What's the difference between physiognomical and physiognomy?
Physiognomical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Physiognomic perception, a cognitive style dimension through which people imbue objects with varying degrees of affect, was measured by a standardized and validated instrument known as the Stein Physiognomic Cue Test.
(2) This study was designed to determine whether veridical interpersonal perceptions can be found on the basis of physiognomic cues.
(3) The purpose of the present study was to determine whether physiognomic perception influenced community college students' selection of a variety of educational-vocational goals.
(4) During the recovery phase, symptoms of right hemisphere involvement were prominent with left-sided hemianopsia and diminished optokinetic nystagmus to the left, prosopagnosia in two cases, and dysmorphopsia with altered physiognomic recognition in one case.
(5) The correlations between nose height, nose length, and morphologic facial height and physiognomic facial height have been discussed.
(6) The hypothesis that physiognomic perception, rather than being an immature mode, characterizing, in particular, children, primitives, and schizophrenics, is, instead, a basic mode, was tested.
(7) Results supported the hypothesis that those individuals who demonstrated higher physiognomic perception would show greater flexibility in concept formation.
(8) 40 junior high school boys were rated as high or low physiognomic and administered a flexibility of concept-formation task.
(9) The expectation that females would have greater physiognomic tendencies than males was not confirmed for the present sample.
(10) Three disorders of facial recognition and perception in acute schizophrenia and mescaline-induced psychosis are described and illustrated using original clinical and experimental material: "affective prosopagnosia" or stress-related dysfunctional face recognition; "physiognomization" of the environment or persistent illusions and hallucinations of nonspecific faces; and the "mirror phenomenon" or the experience of inner alienation from one's reflected face, which is perceived as independently alive, sinister, and generally physically distorted.
(11) Results supported the hypothesis that those individuals with higher physiognomic perception would show more empathy than those with a lower degree of physiognomic perception.
(12) ), the deficit encompassed all perceptual operations on faces, including matching identical views of the same faces, but it did not extend to all categories of objects characterized by a close similarity among their instances; the second patient (P.M.) exhibited a less severe perceptual impairment but was unable to derive the configurational properties from a facial representation and to extract its physiognomic invariants; the third patient (P.C.)
(13) The following reports the findings of a study that tested the hypothesis that schizophrenics--contrary to what has been suggested in the literature--are deficient, rather than superior, in perception of physiognomic properties.
(14) The capacity of the patients implicitly to access pertinent knowledge related to overtly unrecognized faces was inversely related to the severity of their perceptual deficit, suggesting that some preserved ability to extract the physiognomic invariants of a face is a necessary condition for the occurrence of the phenomenon.
(15) This study analyses the physical and physiognomic semiotics characteristic of anxious persons which, together with other symptoms, lead to the diagnosis of the disorder caused by anxiety.
(16) The data clearly indicated superior recognition of physiognomic stimuli presented in the left visual field and above-chance-level performance of subjects' manual responses for these below-threshold stimuli.
(17) On the other hand, the study of the morphological and physiognomical facial indexes does not show any definitive correlation as regards the place of division and the number of secondary branches.
(18) Results were interpreted as adding evidence to the existence of physiognomic perception as a cognitive control principle.
(19) The hypothesis that students selecting various major fields of study would differ as a function of physiognomic tendencies was supported.
(20) Among others, eighteenth-century artists and anatomists helped to set these twentieth-century precedents, actually measuring deviations of external traits to analogous deformations of the soul, and drawing moral conclusions from physiognomic measurements.
Physiognomy
Definition:
(n.) The art and science of discovering the predominant temper, and other characteristic qualities of the mind, by the outward appearance, especially by the features of the face.
(n.) The face or countenance, with respect to the temper of the mind; particular configuration, cast, or expression of countenance, as denoting character.
(n.) The art telling fortunes by inspection of the features.
(n.) The general appearance or aspect of a thing, without reference to its scientific characteristics; as, the physiognomy of a plant, or of a meteor.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a case report of 2-month-old boy who had a peculiar physiognomy with a microcephalus and an undeveloped forehead.
(2) The important variability between investigators in the rating of the clinical profile of fluoxetine suggests that more experience is needed in order to define better its physiognomy.
(3) After a brief philologic introduction on some correlated concepts of pathogenesis we suggest the concept of pathological physiognomy of the organs.
(4) These results support the priority of innate and perceptual processes in physiognomy over those of learning and memory, although some ambiguities still remain.
(5) In the thirties of our century, patient physiognomy has undergone a renaissance (Killian, Fervers, Risak, Lange and others) which was repeated in the sixties.
(6) The disruption of the normal functional development mechanism causes the formation of the characteristic physiognomy of a child with a cleft.
(7) Altering the typical mongoloid physiognomy facilitates the integration of these children into the community.
(8) In this study of 13 HED families with 16 affected males, 12 carriers, and 12 normal individuals, affected individuals had at least 3 of the following 4 clinical signs and symptoms: a) hypodontia, b) hypohidrosis, c) hypotrichosis, and d) clinically distinct facial physiognomy.
(9) Physiognomy found acceptance in the medicine of modern times, particularly through the publications of Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801), Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) and then, after 1838, of Karl Heinrich Baumgärtner (1798-1886) who took advantage of lithography, which had just come into use, to reproduce pictures of patients.
(10) The findings are suggestive of a differing facial physiognomy in isolated cleft palate.
(11) He asserts the rightfulness of the treatment and the hypotheses of unlawfulness; he mentions aspects of personal identification of a patient surgically treated whose physiognomy is modified, in the light of identification regulations.
(12) West Greenlanders with a predominantly Eskimoan physiognomy showed smaller anterior chambers than unmixed East Greenland Eskimos and Eskimo-Caucasian hybrids.
(13) A characteristic physiognomy, variable ophthalmologic anomalies and relatively specific dental and digital defects provide the diagnostic features.
(14) The characteristic physiognomy, shortness of stature with thin extremities, and large trophic ulcers are the key signs for the diagnosis.
(15) Low temperatures induce drastic changes in plant physiognomy and leaf anatomy, but dry matter allocation to the different plant compartments does not show a uniform trend.
(16) They stress the very particular physiognomy of this type of meningo-radiculitis, its seasonal occurrence and the uncertain nature of its pathogenesis.
(17) In 1864, one critic, J Hain Friswell, wrote: "One cannot readily imagine our essentially English Shakespeare to have been a dark, heavy man, with a foreign expression, of decidedly Jewish physiognomy, thin curly hair [and] a somewhat lubricious mouth" - an unpleasant xenophobic fantasy, but revealing, perhaps, of an ancestral urge for the national poet not only to have an identifiable face, but look the part.
(18) Outstanding features are early onset occurring during childhood or adolescence, unlike the idiopatic sporadic form of the disease, and the association with a peculiar physiognomy that reminds one of the facial expression found in Modigliani's paintings.
(19) Among the various types of hepatic ductular atresias, there is a group of patients with a definable syndrome of malformations: typical physiognomy, malformation of pulmonary arteries, mental retardation and disturbed growth of body and genitals.
(20) Study of clinical features observed during two separate periods of 10 years shows a modification in the physiognomy of this cancer, with, notably, a larger frequence of lower stages (45% of stage II in 1984 vs 20% in 1974) and a slight tendancy towards the discovery of smaller non - or early - infiltrating tumors (4% in 1984 vs 0% in 1974).