Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pneumoencephalography

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pneu-moen-cephalog-ra-phy
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A former medical procedure in which most of the cerebrospinal fluid was drained from around the brain and replaced with air, oxygen, or helium to allow the structure of the brain to show up more clearly on an X-ray image.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Etymology

From pneumo- + encephalo- + -graphy.

Usage

Inflected Forms

pneumoencephalographies (plural) PEG (abbreviation)

Rhymes With

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Questions

What does pneumoencephalography mean?: A former medical procedure in which most of the cerebrospinal fluid was drained from around the brain and replaced with air, oxygen, or helium to allow the structure of the brain to show up more clearly on an X-ray image.
Where does pneumoencephalography come from?: From pneumo- + encephalo- + -graphy.

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