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encephalography

British  
/ ɛnˌsɛfələˈɡræfɪk, ˌɛnsɛfəˈlɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

  1. the branch of medical science concerned with taking and analysing X-ray photographs of the brain

  2. another name for electroencephalography See electroencephalograph

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Other Word Forms

  • encephalographic adjective
  • encephalographically adverb

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The spatial resolution of the two encephalography technologies is notoriously imprecise, however, because the recordings are made through the scalp.

From Scientific American • Mar. 17, 2022

The mentation pictures we got by encephalography compare very favorably with those of any human child of ten or twelve years old, and so does their learning and puzzle-solving ability.

From Little Fuzzy by Piper, H. Beam

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