encephalo-
(ɛnˈsɛfələʊ, ɛnˈkɛfələʊ)
comb. form of Gr. ἐγκέϕαλος brain, as in encephalogram (ɛnˈsɛfələʊgræm, ɛnˈkɛf-), an X-ray photograph of the brain; encephalograph (ɛnˈsɛfələʊgrɑːf, -æf, ɛnˈkɛf-), (a) = encephalogram; (b) an instrument for recording the electrical activity of the brain, electro-encephalograph; encephaˈlography [ad. G. encephalographie (A. Bingel 1921, in Fortschr. auf d. Gebiete d. Röntgenstrahlen XXVIII. 205)], the radiological examination of the brain (see quot. 1955); hence encephaloˈgraphic a.; enˈcephalolith, a concretion in the brain (Billings); encephaˈlology, a description of the brain; the science of the brain; enˌcephalomaˈlacia, softening of the brain; enˌcephalomeˈningocele, protrusion through a fissure in the skull of brain-substance with the attached membranes; enˌcephalomyeˈlitis, inflammation of both the brain and the spinal cord; any of various virus diseases characterized by fever and lack of co-ordination and damage to the central nervous system.
| 1928 Bull. N.Y. Acad. Med. IV. 828 (title) Case report illustrating the early diagnostic significance of the encephalogram. 1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Path. x. 306 The possibility that the encephalograms are themselves affected by experience deserves at least to be considered. |
| 1934 Webster, Encephalograph. 1955 Oxf. Jun. Encycl. XI. 307/1 The ‘encephalograph’, a device which records electrical effects of the activity of the brain. |
| 1922 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. LXXVIII. 622/2 Bingel discusses his..technic for encephalography or the roentgenographic representation of the brain. Ibid., He reported 100 cases in which encephalographic data had been secured. 1955 Gloss. Terms Radiology (B.S.I.) 21 Encephalography, the radiological examination of the ventricles and subarachnoid space following the injection of air by cisternal or lumbar puncture. 1962 Lancet 8 Dec. 1205/1 The electroencephalogram shows that the cerebral cortex has been extensively destroyed, and this can readily be confirmed by air encephalography. |
| 1824 (title) Encephalology, or a very brief Sketch of Dr. Hirnschadel's Ologies of the Cranion and Phren perfected by the Rationals. |
| 1842 Dunglison Med. Lex. (ed. 3) 263/2 Encephalomalacia, mollities cerebri. 1863 D. Maclachlan Pract. Treat. Dis. Advanced Life viii. 172 (heading) Encephalomalacia, necrencephalus, ramollissement cérébral, or softening of the brain. 1912 Adami & McCrae Path. 487 The result of such embolism is encephalomalacia. |
| 1900 Index Catal. Libr. Surgeon-General's Off., U.S. Army 2nd Ser. V. 1/2 Encephalomeningocele, See Brain (Hernia of). 1905 T. H. Green's Path. (ed. 10) 11 They [sc. pouches in the cranium] may contain brain-substance (encephalocele), or brain-substance and fluid (encephalomeningocele). |
| 1908 Jrnl. Nerv. & Ment. Dis. XXXV. 388 (title) A case of probable encephalomyelitis. 1939 Ann. Reg. 1938 376 Man is susceptible to equine encephalomyelitis. 1963 Greenfield & Norman in W. Blackwood Greenfield's Neuropath. (ed. 2) viii. 475 Encephalomyelitis as a sequel to acute infectious disease, especially smallpox..and measles.., has been known for two centuries. 1966 Wright & Symmers Systemic Path. II. xxxiv. 1197 Rabies is essentially an acute encephalomyelitis. |