Word.ws English Dictionary

brain scanner

brain scanner noun: a device used to perform brain imaging.

Noun

brain scanner (plural brain scanners)

  1. A device used to perform brain imaging.
    • Fortunately all this was superseded in the 1970s, by the invention of the first brain scanner.2006, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Martin R. Turner, R. Shane Delamont, The Brain: A Beginner's Guide, Oneworld Publications, published 2011, page 208

Forms of brain scanner

pluralbrain scanners
alternative formbrain-scanner
alternative formbrainscanner

Questions about brain scanner

What does brain scanner mean?
Brain scanner means a device used to perform brain imaging.
What part of speech is brain scanner?
Brain scanner is a noun.
What is the plural of brain scanner?
The plural of brain scanner is brain scanners.

Words near brain scanner in the dictionary

  1. brain machines
  2. brain mushroom
  3. brain mushrooms
  4. brain rot
  5. brain sand
  6. brain scanner
  7. brain scanners
  8. brain science
  9. brain sciences
  10. brain stem
  11. brain stems

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brain scanner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “brain scanner.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/brain_scanner. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.