ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electroencephalogram mean? 

• ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (noun)
  The noun ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM has 1 sense:

1. a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph

  Familiarity information: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (noun)

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Meaning:

A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

EEG; electroencephalogram; encephalogram

Hypernyms ("electroencephalogram" is a kind of...):

graph; graphical record; graphical recording (a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes)

 Context examples 

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to electroencephalogram.

(Electroencephalogram Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

The resulting traces are known as an electroencephalogram (EEG).

(Electroencephalography, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called electroencephalogram.

(EEG, NCI Dictionary)

A research team led by Dr Lorna Halliday, now at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, used an electroencephalogram (EEG) technique to measure the brain responses of 46 children who had been diagnosed with permanent mild-to-moderate hearing loss while they were listening to sounds.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)