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ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

Specialty Definition: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

DomainDefinition

Health

Recording of electric currents developed in the brain by means of electrodes applied to the scalp, to the surface of the brain, or placed within the substance of the brain. (references)

Medicine

The production and study of the encephalogram. Source: European Union. (references)
 Recording of action currents within the head, arising from activity in the nerve centres. Source: European Union. (references)

Public Administration

Recording of the electrical currents generated by cerebral activity and thus verifying whether the brain is damaged of not. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Electroencephalography

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Electroencephalography is neurophysiologic exploration of the electrical activity of the brain.

Richard Caton (1842-1926), a physician practicing in Liverpool, presented his findings about electrical phenomena of the exposed cerebral hemispheres of rabbits and monkeys in 1875.

Hans Berger (1873-1941) began his studies of the human EEG in 1920.

See electroencephalogram.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Electroencephalography."

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Crosswords: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

Specialty definitions using "ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY": MagnetoencephalographyPSYCHOLOGIST, EXPERIMENTAL. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Atlas and Classification of Electroencephalography (reference)

  • Atlas of Electroencephalography in the Dog and Cat (reference)

  • Atlas of Neonatal Electroencephalography (reference)

  • Current Practice of Clinical Electroencephalography (reference)

  • Electroencephalography (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

"ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%11106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

electroencephalography

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

Language Translations for "ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

elektroencefalografi. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

elektro-encefalografie. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

elektroenkefalografia, aivosähkökäyrän otto. (various references)

   

French

  

électro-encéphalographie, électroencéphalographie (electroencephalogram). (various references)

   

German

  

Elektroenzephalographie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ηλεκτροεγκεφαλογραφία. (various references)

   

Italian

  

elettroencephalografia, elettroencefalografia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

electroencephalographyay

   

Portuguese

  

electroencefalografia. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

electroencefalografía. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

elektroencefalografi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-e-e-g-h-h-l-l-n-o-o-p-p-r-r-t-y"

-1 letter: electroencephalograph.

-5 letters: perchloroethylene.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-e-e-g-h-h-l-l-n-o-o-p-p-r-r-t-y"
 

+5 letters: electroencephalographically.

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Alternative Orthography: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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