encephalometry

plural encephalometries

1. countableuncountableThe measurement of the brain or its regions.

   For practical reasons the isotope encephalometry does not seem to be the method of choice in subdural haematomas.

   1965, Olof Gilland, Technical Progress in Neurological Diagnostics, page 40

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   One subdivision in encephalometry alone deserves especial study, that of the speech-centers,—receptive, emissive and associative,—a problem first essayed by Rüdinger in 1882.

   1902, Edward Anthony Spitzka, “Contributions to the Encephalic Anatomy of the Races”, in American Journal of Anatomy, volume 2, page 25

   We need samples of about 25 to 50 brains of each race, and it should not be too hard to get them, particularly when it is borne in mind that the brains are not destroyed for other uses by encephalometry.

   1955, Franklin Hollander, The Regulation of Hunger and Appetite, page 507