Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

encephalometry

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: en-cephalom-e-try
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The measurement of the brain or its regions.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"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 destroyed for other uses by encephalometry."
"For practical reasons the isotope encephalometry does not seem to be the method of choice in subdural haematomas."

Etymology

From encephalo- + -metry.

Usage

Inflected Forms

encephalometries (plural)

Derived Forms

encephalometric

Questions

What does encephalometry mean?: The measurement of the brain or its regions.
Where does encephalometry come from?: From encephalo- + -metry.

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