braincap

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noun

A cap with electrodes for monitoring or stimulating the wearer's brain.

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Meanings

nounbraincap (plural braincaps)

plural braincaps

  1. rareA cap with electrodes for monitoring or stimulating the wearer's brain.

    The RF transceiver (attached to an antenna) makes possible the data communication between the braincap and the external monitoring instrumentation used by health professionals.

    2011, Management Association, Information Resources, Wireless Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (page 1279)
  2. rareThe top part of the skull, covering the brain.

    the ratio of the greatest breadth of the braincap to the smallest frontal breadth (smallest distance between the temporal lines over the zygomatic process of the frontal bone)

    1911, Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, The Catholic Encyclopedia (page 621)

Origin

brain + cap

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