A machine or device that produces a recording of brain electrical activity or creates images of brain structures.
From Greek enkephalos (brain) + -graph (instrument for recording or drawing), naming the physical instrument that records brain data.
The encephalograph was one of neurology's first superpowers—it gave doctors an actual window into brain activity when previously they could only guess about what was happening inside the skull.
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