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An electroencephalograph is the machine that records the brain’s tiny electric signals. It is the box, the sensors, and the computer — not the wavy picture itself. In real life almost everyone still says EEG for the machine and the test and the printout, so the tidy -graph / -gram split is clearer in dictionaries than in the hospital corridor. You will see the full word in textbooks and equipment lists. It is specialist medical English, not a word friends use. Though actually, older machines drew ink lines on paper; newer ones are mostly a computer screen, but the name did not change.
腦電圖儀(口頭仍多說 EEG、腦波機)
組成electro- (electricity) + encephalograph (an instrument that records the brain). encephalo- is the brain; -graph is a machine that writes or records.
同家族的字
- electroencephalogramthe tracing this machine makes; -gram is the record, -graph is the instrument
- encephalographthe instrument name without the electro- piece
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
electroencephalographnoun/əˌlɛktɹoʊ.ənˈsɛfələˌɡɹæf/
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medicineneurologyneuroscienceAn instrument used for recording electrical brain activity.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。