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electroencephalography

/əlɛktɹəʊɛnsɛfəˈlɒɡɹəfi/

electroencephalography noun: the measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes.

electroencephalography: the measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes
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Noun

electroencephalography (plural electroencephalographies, abbreviation EEG)

  1. The measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes.
    • Indeed, while many philosophers of language in the 20th century proposed that we think in sentence-like strings of language, use of brain imaging technology like electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) has since revealed that thinking more probably happens in a complex...2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

electroencephalography meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

electroencephalography in Tamil

மின்முனை வரையம், மூளைமின்னலை வரவு

electroencephalography in Indonesian

measurement of electrical activity in medicine
elektroensefalografi

Forms of electroencephalography

pluralelectroencephalographies
abbreviationEEG
alternative formelectro-encephalography

Origin of electroencephalography

From electro- + encephalo- + -graphy.

Words formed from electroencephalography

Words that rhyme with electroencephalography

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Questions about electroencephalography

What does electroencephalography mean?
Electroencephalography means the measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes.
What is electroencephalography in Tamil?
Electroencephalography in Tamil is மின்முனை வரையம், மூளைமின்னலை வரவு. See Electroencephalography meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is electroencephalography?
Electroencephalography is a noun.
How do you pronounce electroencephalography?
Electroencephalography is pronounced /əlɛktɹəʊɛnsɛfəˈlɒɡɹəfi/.
What is the plural of electroencephalography?
The plural of electroencephalography is electroencephalographies.

Words near electroencephalography in the dictionary

  1. electroencephalographically
  2. electroencephalographies
  3. electroencephalographist
  4. electroencephalographists
  5. electroencephalographs
  6. electroencephalography
  7. electroencephalophone
  8. electroencephalophones
  9. electroencephaloscope
  10. electroencephaloscopes
  11. electroendocytosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: electroencephalography (page history and authors); electroencephalography (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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