单词 | biotypology |
释义 | biotypologyn. Now chiefly historical. The classification of human beings by body type or other morphological, physiological, or psychological characteristics. ΘΚΠ the world > people > science of mankind > [noun] anthropology1593 microcosmography1606 biology1686 human science1833 biotypology1927 1927 Guidebk. Some European School Syst. (Columbia Univ. Teachers Coll. Internat. Inst.) 26 An Institute for Biotypology and Orthogenetics has just been opened. 1937 Nature 11 Sept. 471/2 One section of the International Congress was devoted to matters coming under such heads as biometry, biotypology and heredity. 1956 Amer. Jrnl. Orthodontics 42 835 Since divergencies are systematically repeated, it has been possible to classify the persons in whom they occur as constitutional types (constitutional biotypology). 1991 N. L. Stepan Hour of Eugenics iv. 115 As racism intensified in Europe as well as in Latin America in the 1930s, biotypology found many advocates. 2001 M. B. Plotkin Freud in Pampas i. 19 Psychiatrists did not abandon previous notions, however, but combined degeneracy theory with Ernst Kretschmer's constitutional psychiatry, Nicola Pende's biotypology, Adolf Meyer's psychobiology, and other theories. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1927 |
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