encephalometry

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English

Etymology

From encephalo- +‎ -metry.

Noun

encephalometry (countable and uncountable, plural encephalometries)

  1. The measurement of the brain or its regions.
    • 1902, Edward Anthony Spitzka, “Contributions to the Encephalic Anatomy of the Races”, in American Journal of Anatomy, volume 2, page 25:
      One subdivision in encephalometry alone deserves especial study, that of the speech-centers,—receptive, emissive and associative,—a problem first essayed by Rüdinger in 1882.
    • 1955, Franklin Hollander, The Regulation of Hunger and Appetite, page 507:
      We need samples of about 25 to 50 brains of each race, and it should not be too hard to get them, particularly when it is borne in mind that the brains are not destoryed for other uses by encephalometry.
    • 1965, Olof Gilland, Technical Progress in Neurological Diagnostics, page 40:
      For practical reasons the isotope encephalometry does not seem to be the method of choice in subdural haematomas.

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