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Phineas Gage Cased Daguerreotype WilgusPhoto2008-12-19 EnhancedRetouched Color
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Jack and Beverly Wilgus
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Phineas Gage GageMillerPhoto2010-02-17 Unretouched Color
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盖奇

蓋奇
Gàiqí
proper noun #35,078

Meanings

  1. 1 Gage (English surname)
  2. 2 Phineas Gage (famous 19th-century neurology case)

About Phineas Gage

1823–1860 · 历史人物 historical figure

American railway foreman who survived an iron rod blasted through his head in 1848; the change in his behaviour afterwards made him the best-known case in textbooks on the brain.

Examples

HSK 6
盖奇是这本书的主角。
Gàiqí shì zhè běn shū de zhǔjué.
Gage is the protagonist of this book.
HSK 7-9
心理学课上讲了菲尼斯·盖奇的故事。
Xīnlǐxué kè shàng jiǎng le Fēinísī Gàiqí de gùshi.
In psychology class we covered the story of Phineas Gage.

Tips

usage
盖奇 is the usual rendering of the surname Gage, though Phineas also appears as 费尼斯·盖吉. 盖 'cover' and 奇 'strange' are chosen for sound only. Contrary to his legend as a ruined drifter, he later drove stagecoaches in Chile for years.

Stroke Order

盖 gài
奇 qí