English Explanatory Dictionary

pneumoencephalography

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

pneumoencephalography pneumoencephalographies

Etymology

From pneumo- + encephalography.

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